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FIRST ANNUAL MEETING. 



Boston, January lo, 1882. 

Pursuant to notice, duly issued by the Clerk, the first annual 
meeting was this day held in the hall of the New England 
Historic-Genealogical Society, 18 Somerset Street, Boston, at 
3.30 P.M., President Curtis Guild in the chair. 

The records of the last meeting were read by the clerk and 
approved, as were also the lease executed at that meeting, and the 
records of the last and final meeting of the Boston Antiquarian 
Club, at which that society voted to disband and to transfer all of 
its property to this corporation. 

The committee on increased membership reported that they 
had caused to be prepared a list of names of gentlemen who were 
thought to favor the purposes of this Society, and to whom it was 
proposed to send a circular stating its objects, and the committee 
asked for further time to make a full report. 

The same committee also reported the following list of candi- 
dates for officers for the year 1882 : — 

For Directors. 

Curtis Guild, William S. Appleton, 

Abbott Lawrence, Thomas Minns, 

Robert R. Bishop, John T. Hassam, 

Samuel H. Russell. 

For Clerk and Treasurer. 
Samuel M. Quincy. 



A ballot was then taken, and the foregoing list of candidates 
declared to be duly elected officers of the Society for the ensuing 
year. 

At the expiration of a recess of five minutes, the meeting was 
again called to order, and the Clerk announced that at a meeting 
of the newly elected Board of Directors, Curtis Guild had been 
re-elected President of the Society. 

President Guild then addressed the Society. 

At the conclusion of the President's address, ninety candidates 
for membership, who had been members of the Boston Antiqua- 
rian Club, were admitted without ballot, in accordance with the 
provisions of Article VII of the By-Laws, and four candidates for 
membership were elected by ballot. 

Adjourned. 

Samuei, M. Ouincy, Clerk. 



MEMBERS 



Thomas C. Amory, 
Nathan Appleton, 
William S. Appleton, 
Robert E. Apthorp, 
Howard P. Arnold, 
Edward Atkinson, 
Timothy Bigelow, 
Robert R. Bishop, 
Joshua P. Bodfish, 
Charles P. Bowditch, 
Martin L. Bradford, 
Caleb D. Bradlee, 
Charles Rollin Brainard, 
Peter C. Brooks, 
Buckminster Brown, 
J. C. J. Brown, 
Alvah A. Burrage, 
Edwin L, Bynner, 
B. S. Calef, 
Horace P. Chandler, 
George B. Chase, 
Dudley R. Child, 
Botsford R. Clarke, 
Dorus Clarke, 
S. W. Creech, jr., 
Samuel T. Cushing, 
John Ward Dean, 
M. F. Dickinson, jr., 
John H. Dix, 
Jacob A. Dresser, 
Loren G. DuBois, 
H. H. Edes, 
William Endicott, jr., 
A. C. Fearing, jr., 
A. A. Folsom, 
H. W. Foote, 



Edward J. Forster, 
Charles E. French, 
Frederick W. French, 
Henry W. French. 

B. A. G. Fuller, 
Isaac P. Gragg, 
Charles P. Greenough, 
F. B. Greenough, 
Curtis Guild, 

E. E. Hale, 

George W. Hammond, 
Charles Harris, 
John T. Hassam, 
Henry W. Haynes, 
Hamilton A. Hill, 
Henry W. Holland, 

C. D. Homans, 
George H. Homans, 
George D. Howe, 
Richard C. Humphreys. 
James F. Hunnewell, 
Charles E. Inches, 
George Abbott James, 
Henry F. Jenks, 
Leonard A. Jones, 
John Lathrop, 
Abbott Lawrence, 
William H. Lee, 

F. W. Lincoln, 
S. K. Lothrop, 
T. K. Lothrop, 
Henry Lyon, 
Thomas Mair, 
Fred. W. G. May, 
Thomas Minns, 
Francis Minot, 



H. A. Morse, 
John Noble, 
Grenville H. Norcross, 
Otis Norcross, 
Frederick R. Nourse, 
James R. Osgood, 
R. T. Paine, jr., 
F. W. Palfrey, 
John C. Palfrey, 
Aug. T. Perkins, 
Alex. S. Porter, 
Edward Ellerton Pratt, 
Samuel M. Quincy, 
John C. Ropes, 
Samuel H. Russell, 
D. W. Salisbury, 
George D. Sargent, 
Samuel E. Sewall. 
Charles C. Smith, 
Samuel G. Snelling, 



Henry H. Sprague, 
W. W. Swan, 
Geo. A. Thayer, 
Arthur W. Tufts, 
Job A. Turner, jr., 
Francis H. Underwood, 
G. Washington Warren, 
Winslow Warren, 
iVIoses W. Weld, 
Otis Everett Weld, 
Samuel Wells, 
J. Gardner White, 
William H. Whitmore, 
Arthur W. Willard, 
R. Willard, 
Levi L. Willcutt, 
Jacob L. Williams, 
Erving Winslow, 
William Elliot Woodward. 



BOSTON IAN SOCIETY. 



OBJECTS. 



TO PROMOTE THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF BOSTON, AND THE 
PRESERVATION OF ITS ANTIQUITIES. 



BY-IiAWS. 

I. 

DIRECTORS. 

The number of Directors shall not exceed seven. 

II. 

MEMBERS. 

The members of the Bostonian Society shall be such persons, either resident or 
non-resident in Boston, who shall, after being proposed as candidates at any regular 
monthly meeting of the Society, be elected by the votes of two-thirds of the mem- 
bers present and voting, and shall subscribe the By-Laws of the Society. 

III. 

MEETINGS. 

The annual meeting of the Society shall be held on the second Tuesday in Januarj', 
and regular meetings shall be held on the second Tuesday of each month, excepting 
July, August, and September, at such time and place as the Directors shall appoint. 
Special meetings shall be called by the Clerk, under the instruction of the Directors. 

IV. 

MEETINGS OV DIRECTORS. 

Meetings of the Directors shall be held in such manner as they may appoint. 



ANNUAL ASSESSMENTS. 

Every member of the Society shall pay such annual assessments as shall be pro- 
vided for by the Society from time to time, and any failure to comply with the By- 
Laws of the Society shall work a forfeiture of membership. 



VI. 

AI1MISS10N FEK AND ASSESSMENTS. 

I'iacli ineml)(.r sliall pay an admission fee of five dollars {#5.00), and after the 
calendar year of his admission, an annual assessment of five dollars ($5.00), payable 
in the month of January. Any member who shall neglect to pay his admission fee or 
assessment for three months after the same is due, shall be liable to forfeit his mem- 
Ijership at any time when IJie Directors shall so order. 

VII. 

ACl'IUN (IN MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON ANTIQUARIAN CLUB. 

The action of Article 2 is hereby suspended in respect to all the present members 
of the lioston Antitpiarian Club, who, until July i, 1882, shall be admitted to mem- 
bership without a ballot on application and subscribing the By-Laws. 

VIII. 

DUTIES OF TREASURER. 

The Treasurer shall givt bond in the sum of one dollar, with one surety, for the 
discharge of his duties. 

IX. 

VACANCIES. 

Any vacancy in the Hoard of Directors may be filled for the remainder of the term, 
at any regular meeting of tiie Society, by the votes of two-thirds of the members 
])resent and voting. 

X. 

AMENDMENTS TO BY-LAWS. 

Amendments to the I!y-I,aws may be made at the first meeting or any annual 
meeting, by tlie vole of Iwotliircls o{ tlie mendjers present and voting. They may 
also be made by the like vote at any regular meeting, provided notice of the same 
be contained in a call for such meeting issued by the Clerk, and sent to every member. 



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ANNUAL MEETING, JANUARY 9, 1883. 




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BOSTONIAN SOCIETY, 



Annual Meeting, January 9, 1883. 




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BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 



SECOND ANNUAL MEETING. 



Boston, January 9, 1883. 

Pursuant to notice duly issued by the clerk the second annual 
meeting was this day held in the Council Chamber, Old State 
House, at three P.M., President Curtis Guild in the chair. The 
records of the last meeting were read and approved. After bal- 
loting for and election of new members the President addressed 
the meeting as follows : — 

PRESIDENT GUILD'S ADDRESS. 

Getttlemen of the Bostonian Society: — 

I congratulate you upon the progress that our Society has made 
thus far. 

The Directors' report will give in detail the transactions of the 
Society since its last annual meeting, and the Treasurer's report 
show to you that, although not a rich organization, yet we close 
the present year entirely free from debts of any description, and 
with a balance on the right side of the account. 

Taking possession of these memorial halls of the Old State 
House in the summer season, at a time when a large proportion 
of our members were absent from the city, and necessarily being 
obliged to incur considerable expense in the setting up of house- 
keeping, it may be understood that it has not been possible to 
devote ourselves to the carrying out the objects of the Society so 
thoroughly as can be done when we have the advantage of age, 
an increased membership, and a more thorough appreciation of 
our aim and objects. 



Since taking possession of these memorial halls the officers of 
the Society have found themselves somewhat embarrassed from the 
lack of certain committees which should be appointed for the 
performance of certain duties ; such as the care and arrangement 
of rooms, reception of mementos, increasing membership, the 
providing of papers to be read, and other exercises at the Society- 
meetings, etc., which duties have been performed by the officers 
and through the kindness of members interested in the Society. 
This embarrassment will be remedied by votes taken at this 
meeting. 

The Directors, as you will learn, however, have found a remark- 
able degree of interest manifested in the history of this building, 
and in the comparatively few historical mementos that have as 
yet been brought together here for exhibition. Visitors from all 
parts of the country, as well as many from foreign nations, have 
seemed to derive pleasure and satisfaction from treading these 
floors and walking within these walls that have rung with the elo- 
quence of some of the noblest of American patriots. 

And the warm terms of gratification expressed by American 
citizens from every part of the country who have visited our 
memorial halls that this historic building has been restored, are a 
guarantee that its preservation is most heartily approved by all 
patriotic citizens. 

But, while we congratulate ourselves upon having become thor- 
oughly domiciled in our new home, there remains something more 
for us to do. The objects of the Society are " to promote the 
study of the history of Boston and the preservation of its antiqui- 
ties." To carry out these objects, even in a moderate degree, 
requires a society of strength in numbers and influence, and that 
it be well organized, and the duties of its several departments 
faithfully performed by those who will have enthusiasm in their 
work. 

The arrangement of some committees and the performance of 
certain duties, the necessity of which has arisen since taking pos- 
session of these rooms, have been deferred until this meeting, be- 
cause the appointment of such committees could be made for a 
year's time, and our necessities would by this time have come to 
be more thoroughly understood. 

First, an increased membership is desirable, in order that the 



Society may be in sufficient funds for its necessary expenses, and 
indeed it is to be hoped the number may be increased, so that the 
annual assessment can be diminished in amount. Secondly, the 
providing of working committees that will so divide the duties 
that they will be efficiently performed without pressing heavily 
upon any. Thirdly, the keeping in mind by every member the 
objects of the Society, and that upon each one of us in some 
slight degree rests a responsibility of carrying them out satisfac- 
torily. 

As I have remarked at a previous meeting, the members of this 
Society are in no way the foes of progress, but the friends of genu- 
ine enterprise, and as such believe that lessons for the future may 
often be learned from the past; and also that there are in this 
earliest of American cities monuments, records, and mementos 
of the past the preservation of which will be acknowledged with 
gratitude by those who are to come after us as bequests of historic 
value, of instruction, and of interest. 

Had such a Society as this been in existence at the time, it is 
doubtful if the old Hancock Mansion would have been demolished. 
An organized body with our object would have learned in good 
season of the move upon that noble monument of the past, and 
might have, with its combined effort and influence, brought about 
what individuals labored industriously, but ineffectuall}^, to accom- 
plish. 

Now that it has disappeared, the City Government are to place 
a bronze plate in front of the spot where the Mansion once stood 
to inform the present and future generations of "what here once 
was," — about as satisfactory to the visitor as the " once upon a 
time " of the story-teller. 

Ah, but if the original could have been preserved ! And look- 
ing at it with a purely utilitarian eye, it seems that it could have 
been with so little cost, that it was but little short of sacrilege to 
cause its destruction. 

What have we upon its site to-day? Two grand and stately 
brick houses close to the paved walk, — mansions that command 
but a glance from the passer-by among their ambitious com- 
petitors. 

Let those who remember the Hancock Mansion recall that 
picturesque old specimen of Colonial architecture of stone, — its 



hue mellowed with age, perched upon a platform above a series of 
green terraces ; there was the broad old portal, with the balcony 
above it upon Avhich the Governor might stand forth to address 
the people ; the broad series of stone steps that led up to the 
great front door; the antique fence at the sidewalk from whence 
they began ; the quaint trimmings of doorways and windows ; the 
brown roof and dormer windows; the admirable placing of the 
building in an open space upon a raised platform, with the lilac 
bushes, flowers, and green slopes in summer, — making the whole 
one of the most beautiful and picturesque objects in the metropo- 
lis. It might have been preserved and converted into a memorial 
building like this ; and if the demands of the Assessors called for 
it, the public pilgrims to this shrine of American patriotism would, 
I think, have left patriotic pence enough per annum for fees of 
admission to equal what is now realized from the modern palaces 
that occupy its site. (Applause.) 

And what would have been saved? 

The residence of one of Boston's earliest and most patriotic 
merchants ; the home of the first signer of the Declaration of 
Independence ; a name known to every school-boy in the world 
by a signature that has firmness, resolution, and determination in 
every stroke of every written letter that composes it ; the home 
of the first Governor of Massachusetts. But no ; the residence of 
him who delivered the oration of 1774 condemning the Boston 
Massacre ; who was President of Congress, and the first to affix 
his name to the instrument second only to Magna Charta in its 
importance ; who for eleven years was the honored chief magis- 
trate of Massachusetts, — this memorial of a great man, and of a 
great period of a nation's history, is ruthlessly swept away when 
it ought to have been religiously and sacredly preserved as one of 
the precious historical mementos of the country. 

This picturesque old mansion, which, to the rising generation, 
would have pointed a paragraph, emphasized a lesson, illustrated 
history, and excited interest in its study, is to be represented by 
a bronze plate, a brazen apology for its destruction and an imper- 
fect indicator of its real position. 

It is the prevention of similar results to this that the Bostonian 
Society is to address itself, and in properly doing so it will receive 
the hearty support of all true and patriotic citizens. 



It is said that familiarity breeds contempt, and perhaps the im- 
mediate presence of memorials of great historic interest may 
beget indifference. Certain it is that since the organization of 
this Society the necessity of organized effort to rescue from 
destruction important mementos of our city's history has seemed 
to have been more generally recognized by our own citizens than 
ever before. Our countrymen in the great and newer cities of the 
West, — citizens who are as proud of their country as the most 
patriotic of us here ; who have learned its early history in their 
text-books in the common schools ; who have sympathized with 
the struggles of our forefathers in the founding of the Republic, — 
they can scarcely understand the spirit that would sweep every 
visible relic of those days away and sacrifice all upon the altar 
of utilitarianism. 

They, as citizens of the United States, are beginning to look to 
those of Boston as the custodians of mementos of the early history 
of the country which should be considered as national property. 
Faneuil Hall, the Old State House, the Old South Church, Bunker 
Hill, — why, to possess such memorials as these, with all the 
memories and reminiscences that cluster around them, some of 
our newer municipalities would, as an orator has remarked in 
this hall, pay down their very weight in gold. But as we gain in 
years as a city, those who have no sentiment to urge them to 
preserve these mementos may, perhaps, come to recognize their 
commercial value as attractions to call visitors to the metropolis ; 
indeed, this recognition is already palpable to us all. 

In referring to our present quarters we cannot be too grateful 
to the City Government that has shown so large a degree of confi- 
dence in us as to make us the custodians of these memorial halls ; 
nor to the untiring zeal of our fellow-member, Mr. VV. H. Whit- 
more, for his successful efforts in bringing about the restoration 
of this building to its original condition as far as possible in these 
modern days. 

In this building, as would have been the case in the Hancock 
Mansion, we desire to show to our children an actual relic of what 
was, — that they as well as we may enjoy the sight in reality of 
what otherwise would only exist in the dry records of history. 

It is something to stand within the very walls that have rung 
with the voices of Adams, Otis, Bowdoin, Hancock, and Quincy; 



the building in which Independence was born, before which the 
stamped clearances of the Stamp Act were burned ; to stand in 
yonder window, from which George Washington looked down as 
the troops and procession of welcome passed before him after 
American Independence had been won ; or at this other window, 
that looks down upon the scene of the Boston Massacre ; within 
these ancient walls that heard the rattling reveille that roused 
the British soldiers on the morning of the 17th of June, 1775, 
and shook with the thunder of British cannon u^Don the rude 
breastwork of Bunker Hill. 

From this very balcony, within a single step of where I now 
stand, was read the Declaration of Independence, July 25, 1776; 
here in this hall the Constitution of Massachusetts was planned. 
Where in the whole country can such an historic monument be 
found? And we were asked to raze this grand old memento of 
the past to the ground, to brush this visible record of the past 
into obscurity ! 

It is gratifying to know that such base ingratitude received its 
rebuke; that enough of the spirit of the fathers remained in their 
descendants to say to the grasping spirit of gain, " Hitherto shalt 
thou come, but no further ; and here shall thy proud waves be 
stayed." (Applause.) 

There should be some visible evidence of our gratitude to the 
fathers; perhaps they may have builded better than they knew; 
but they had trials, they made sacrifices, and suffered to establish 
great principles the advantage of which we now enjoy; so it is 
well that we sacrifice a little to preserve as long as possible relics 
of their times that may help to stamp indelibly upon the minds 
of ourselves and our children the memory of the founders of a 
great nation and of a grand step in the march of civil and 
religious liberty. (Applause.) 

Gentlemen, the Directors' report will give you the general 
transactions of the Society for the year. I have to thank you for 
the kindness with which my own efforts as your presiding officer 
have been received, sometimes performed under many disad- 
vantages, and also to commend to your grateful acknowledgment 
the services of General Quincy, your Treasurer and Clerk, and the 
gentlemen who have so kindly and ably served on the Board of 
Directors. 



The annual report of the Board of Directors was then read, as 
follows, by Mr. Thomas Minns : — 

FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS. 

The Directors respectfully present the following report : — 

The first annual report naturally commences with a brief account 
of the Boston Antiquarian Club, from which this Society sprung. 
The first suggestion for the formation of a club, to arouse an in- 
terest in the past history of our city, came from a circular sent 
May 24, 1879, by Mr. William H. Whitmore to gentlemen of 
antiquarian tastes, requesting their cooperation, and the first pre- 
liminary meeting was held in the Wesleyan Building, Bromfield 
street, June 13, 1879. By the politeness of the New England 
Historic and Genealogical Society subsequent meetings were held 
in the hall of that Society, in Somerset street, and at the first annual 
meeting, January 13, 1880, Gen. Samuel M. Quincy was chosen the 
first President, Mr. F. B. Perkins the first Secretary and Treasurer, 
and Messrs, Samuel H. Russell, William H. Whitmore, and John 
T. Hassam, members of the first Council. 

President Ouincy delivered a stirring inaugural address, and the 
club being now firmly established, Secretary Perkins pushed its 
objects with unremitting zeal, until, to the great and continuing 
regret of all connected with the Society, he was obliged to resign, 
having been chosen Superintendent of the Public Library of San 
Francisco. 

During this time a room had been taken at No. 16 Pemberton 
square, and the nucleus of a valuable and interesting collection of 
books, pictures, and maps, relating to older Boston, was already 
formed. 

As if premonitory of coming events, at the meeting of February 
10, 1880, a vote was passed, ''That the President is instructed to 
appear at any legislative hearing respecting the Old State House, 
in order to act for the preservation of the same, and to call upon 
any members of the club to assist him in such action." 

And, as a subject still awaiting the attention of this Society, we 
are glad to recall that, at the meeting November 9, 1880, after 
hearing an instructive and valuable paper upon William Blackstone 



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by Hon. Thomas C. Amory, it was voted, ''Resolved, That in the 
opinion of this club, in the progress of the ornamentation of the 
city, some statue or other memorial of William Blackstone, to be 
placed on Boston Common, ought not to be forgotten." 

The first step towards the organization of this Society was taken 
at the meeting of the Boston Antiquarian Club, held November 8, 
i88i, when Mr. William H. Whitmore resigned the office of Presi- 
dent. The President stated that an excellent opportunity for en- 
larging the usefulness of the club existed in a possible arrangement 
with the city, by which the club might obtain, at a nominal rent, a 
lease of the Memorial Halls in the Old State House, in considera- 
tion of assuming the care thereof and the regulation of the access 
of the public thereto. It was also suggested that an incorporated 
Society would meet a much better reception from the City Council 
than a voluntary club of gentlemen, and accordingly ten gentlemen 
(the number required by the statute) — Messrs. Thomas C. Amory, 
Curtis Guild, John Ward Dean, Dorus Clark, Samuel M. Ouincy, 
Thomas Minns, William S. Appleton, Henry F. Jenks, John T. 
Hassam, and Dudley R. Child — were constituted a committee to 
form a corporation. The name "The Bostonian Society" was 
happily chosen as exceedingly appropriate, and as having nothing 
in it which might in any way excite the jealousy or interfere with 
the objects of any existing society, — a position which it has always 
maintained in its actions, — and its objects were concisely stated in 
the sentence "to promote the study of the history of Boston and 
the preservation of its antiquities." 

After passing through the necessary formalities required by the 
law, the Charter of the Bostonian Society was finally issued under 
the broad seal of the Commonwealth, attested by the Secretary of 
State, December 2, i88i. 

All the members of the Boston Antiquarian Club were entitled 
to membership in the new Society, and, at a final meeting of the 
club, December 27, 1881, it was voted to transfer all its property 
to the new Society, and the Club ceased to exist. 

Prosperous breezes followed the course of the new Society. The 
City Government has approved of its action by granting it a lease 
of the Historical Halls in the Old State House for ten years from 
December 14, 1881, and the public has smiled upon it by large 
accessions to its membership from our best citizens. 



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Before the Society entered into actual occupation of the Memo- 
rial Halls, and as soon as the work of reconstruction was finished, 
they were rededicated by formal transfer to the Mayor of the 
city on a beautiful summer's day, July ii, last. 

Portraits of Governors Winthrop, Endicott, Bellingham, Burnet, 
Belcher, Dudley, and Hutchinson, engravings of Governors Pow- 
nall and Andros, and a caricature of Governor Gage, hung upon 
the walls. 

In the west hall were the superb portraits by Copley of Samuel 
Adams and John Hancock, and Stuart's portrait of Josiah Ouincy, 
jr., the patriot. 

In the absence of Alderman William Woolley, Chairman of 
the Committee on Public Buildings, Alderman Hersey called the 
meeting to order, and invited Rev. Dr. Rufus Ellis, minister of the 
First Church, established in 1630, to offer prayer. Alderman 
Hersey then introduced the orator of the day in the following 
terms : " Ladies and Gentlemen, — Perhaps to one member of the 
City Government more than all others is due the credit of what- 
ever success has attended the restoration of this building — I 
allude to the member whose duty and pleasure it will be to ad- 
dress you on this occasion. It gives me great pleasure to intro- 
duce to you William H. Whitmore, member of the Common 
Council from Ward 12." 

Mr. Whitmore then delivered a most instructive historical 
address, giving evidence of extensive and laborious research, 
and tracing the history of the building from the earliest times to 
the present, and recapitulating in glowing language the memo- 
rable events that have happened in and around it. At the close 
of his address Mayor Green accepted the building, on behalf of 
the city, in a short speech, and, after a few brief remarks from 
Colonel Marshall P. Wilder, the exercises were concluded by an 
informal but delightful social gathering in the hall below. 

This Society gave up its quarters at 16 Pemberton square and 
removed to the Old State House on the first of July, 1882. 

The formal dedication by the Society of the Memorial Halls 
was appointed for the regular meeting, which was held in the 
Representatives' Hall, October 10, Special cards of admission 
were issued to members, and a large audience assembled to take 
part in the proceedings. 



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President Guild welcomed the company to their new quarters 
in a felicitous speech. Mr. Josiah Ouincy, jr., in an occasional 
address of great interest, recalled the history of the past. Dr. 
William Everett, Rev. Dr. E. E. Hale, Hon. Hamilton A. Hill, 
and Rev. Dr. S. K. Lothrop presented, in eloquent language, the 
great lessons which the past teaches to the present, and Rev. 
Thomas Timmins, of Portsmouth, England, related some interesting 
revolutionary anecdotes. 

During the year interesting and valuable historical addresses 
have been delivered before the Society by the following gentle- 
men : — 

Rev. Henry W. Foote, ''On the Church of England in the Old 
Town House"; Mr. Samuel Adams Drake, "On Taverns and Tavern 
Life under the King," introducing the old-time inns and their 
customers; and Rev. C C. Beaman, "Recollections of Boston," 
describing in detail old Summer, Franklin, Pearl, and Federal 
streets, and old Fort Hill, and their residents. 

Death has dealt gently with the members of this Society during 
the past year, and we rejoice that so many are spared to meet with 
us to-day ; but we mourn the loss of Robert East Apthorp, Samuel 
Thaxter Gushing, Hon. Otis Norcross, Mayor of Boston in 1867, 
and George C. Van Benthuysen, each of whom filled an important 
place in the daily life of the city, and their respective memoirs 
will fill appropriate places in the archives of the Society. 

The whole number of names added to the rolls of the Society 
from the beginning to December 31st is . . . 350 

Removed by death ....... 4 

Resigned ......... i 

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Leaving the present number of members . . . 345 

On the 28th of August a register of visitors to the Halls was 
opened, and up to December 31st the names of 3,905 persons 
are recorded thereon, coming from all parts of the United States. 
The custodians report that many persons visit the rooms fre- 
quently, but are, of course, registered only once. 

Gifts and loans of books, pictures, engravings, maps and plans, 
etc., have been made to the Bostonian Society, and received 
through the Boston Antiquarian Club, from : — 



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The City of Boston, 
Boston Public Library, 
Massachusetts Historical Society, 
New England Historic and Gene- 
alogical Society, 
Boston Board of Trade, 
Miss E. S. Quincy, 
Hon. Josiah Quincy, 
Jeremiah Colburn, 
William H. Whitniore, 
W. W. Greenough, 
Samuel M. Quincy, 
Thomas Minns, 
William Parsons Lunt, 
Alexander S. Porter, 
John T. Hassam, 
F. B. Perkins, 
Samuel H. Russell, 
Dr. F. H. Brown, 



Mrs. M. J. Peabody, 
W. T. R. Marvin, 
Hon. Francis Brinley, 
Josiah Quincy, jr., 
A. C. Baldwin, 
James Alexander, 
W. W. Wheildon, 
Daniel J. Courteney, 
Munroe Chickering, 
Herman B. Tewksbury, 
Herbert W. Kimball, 
John S. Damrell, 
Dudley R. Child, 
Charles E. French, 
C. Henry Adams, 
Edward J. Howard, 
Thomas E. Collins, 
Charles Rollin Brainard. 



Special committees have been appointed to prepare a code of 
By-Laws, to attend to the increase of the membership of the 
Society, and to superintend the removal to the Old State House, 
who have carefully attended to the duties intrusted to them. 

In conclusion, the Directors would congratulate the members 
on a prosperous year closed, which only makes more visible the 
broad fields of usefulness open before the Society. 

The roll of members, though large, is yet far from the thousand 
contemplated in the By-Laws, and if each member would take the 
pains, now in the spring-time of the Society's existence, to add 
the name of a kindred spirit to the list, it will do much to increase 
its power and influence, — a conservative, and yet progressive 
force, in the heart of a great city. 

The collections on our walls serve to remind us that there is 
ample space for more ; and if every one will add something from 
his stores, and persuade his friends to give or lend some interest- 
ing memento of the past, we shall soon offer to the public an his- 
torical museum, the delight of our citizens, and one which strangers 
will place first on their list to be visited ; and we note, as an inter- 



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esting fact, that already, in one of the anterooms, hang the various 
maps made of the city at different periods of its history, which 
gives one a more complete idea of the great changes that have 
taken place from time to time since the first settlement than could 
be obtained by hours' search in any of our great libraries. 

Necrology for 1882. 

[The fig-ures at the left indicate the year of admission to the Society.] 

1882. Samuel Thaxtcr Gushing, of Boston. Born in Boston, 

August 24, 1821 ; died in Boston, January 26, 1882. 
1882. Robert East Apthorp, of Boston. Born in Boston, June 

20, 181 1 ; died in Boston, February 10, 1882. 
1882. George Christie Van Benthuysen, of Boston. Born in 

Spencer, Van Buren County, Tennessee, May 23, 1858; 

died in Boston, June 24, 1882. 
1882. The Hon. Otis Norcross, of Boston. Born in Boston, 

November 2, 181 1 ; died in Boston, September 5, 1882. 

All of which is respectfully submitted, 

CURTIS GUILD, 
ABBOTT LAWRENCE, 
ROBERT R. BISHOP, 
WILLIAM S. APPLETON, 
THOMAS MINNS, 
JOHN T. HASSAM, 
SAMUEL H. RUSSELL, 

Directors. 

The. Treasurer then presented his annual report, as 
follows: — 

TREASURER'S REPORT. 

Receipts. 

Balance from Antiquarian Cltib $28 26 

Osgood, for books returned 18 75 

Admission fees. ........... 1,605 00 

Overcharge printers' bill, repaid I 00 

$1,653 01 



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EXTENDITURES. 

Sundries, as per ledger, approved and authorized by Directors . . $878 91 

Balance in bank Jan. i, 1883 773 1° 

Cash on hand i 00 

$1,653 01 
S. M. QUINCY, Trecisurer. 

Certificate of Auditing Committee. 

Boston, January 6, 1SS3. 
The undersigned have examined the Treasurer's accounts to January i, 1883, 
and find the same to be correctly cast and properly vouched, and showing a 
balance on hand, in the Old Boston National Bank, of $773.10, and cash in hand 
one dollar. 

CURTIS GUILD, 
THOMAS MINNS, 
SAM'L H. RUSSELL, 

Finance Committee. 



Mr. Thomas C. Amory then addressed the meethig as fol- 
lows : — 

Mr. President : You expressed your regret that the Society 
had not been organized twenty years earlier, before 1863, when the 
abode of Governor Hancock was demolished to give place to the 
dwellings erected upon its site by Messrs. James M. Beebe and Gard- 
ner Brewer. What took place at that time with a view of saving 
the Mansion and the estate for the City, or, in case it should prove 
too late for that, to preserve the Mansion somewhere else, may 
be interesting to this meeting. 

In the spring of the year above-mentioned, 1863, Mr. Charles 
Hancock, great-nephew of Governor Hancock, and one of the 
then proprietors of the estate, informed me, at the time an alder- 
man of the city, that his family felt constrained to sell the estate, 
and that Messrs. Beebe and Brewer, desirous of purchasing it, 
had offered them the sum of one hundred and twenty thousand 
dollars for the property ; but that they would prefer to have it 
bought by the City to be preserved. They had already offered it 
to the State for a less sum, but without effect. 

I lost no time in submitting an order to the Board of Alder- 
men, concurred in without delay by the Council, for a joint special 
committee to take the subject into consideration and to negotiate- 



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Meanwhile, Messrs. Beebe and Brewer pressed the Hancock family, 
who were many in number, for an answer to their offer, proposing 
to withdraw it if not at once accepted. Not wishing to lose the 
sale, the family yielded ; and when the committee organized, 
though no time had been lost, it was too late. I went, as in- 
structed by the committee, of which I was the chairman, to en- 
deavor to persuade the purchasers to give it up ; but both, I 
remember, said that their plans had been drawn, that their families 
were unwilling to relinquish it, and that their arrangements were 
such that they would be put to extreme inconvenience if there 
should be any change. 

Mr. Charles Hancock then offered the building to the City for 
removal, and the committee procured an offer from the Land 
Commissioners of the ground on the corner of Clarendon and New- 
bury streets, subject to approval by the Legislature when it met, 
the City taking the chance, and to remove the_ building, or its parts, 
from the lot, if so ordered, Mr. David Sears offered a lot on one 
side of Berners square, at Longwood, and expressed the wish that 
the building, duly fitted up for the purpose, should be dedicated 
to the commemoration of historical personages of the Revolution 
and others entitled to be so honored. He subscribed two thou- 
sand dollars towards the expense of removal, and the subscription 
list soon amounted to thrice that sum. 

It was also under consideration in committee if some site al- 
ready belonging to the city might not be judiciously selected, 
to be used, in part, for the purpose proposed by Mr. Sears. 
Among others, a corner of the Public Garden was suggested, the 
building to be used for that object, but near it a tool-house for 
the gardener and shelter for the garden police. The vote of the 
committee decided upon the Clarendon-street site, corner of Dart- 
mouth square, and an order was submitted to the City Council to 
appropriate six thousand dollars, a sum equal to that promised by 
the subscription-list for the removal. When the order was before 
the Board, one of its members stated he had that day consulted 
with an experienced builder, in whose judgment the removal pro- 
posed was not practicable, for the reason that the cement was 
harder than the stones, which could not be separated; and that 
the removal would cost more than the committee's estimate. 
Due effort was made to combat this view, but without success. 



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Portions of the building were used in other structures. The stone 
lodge of Mr. Lawrence, overlooking the reservoir, at Brighton, 
was built of the stone from the Hancock House. It will be seen 
by the report of the committee herewith presented to the Society 
that Mr. Charles Hancock, in behalf of his brothers and sisters, 
proposed to give to the public, in case of the removal, portraits 
of their great-uncle, Thomas, who built the house in 1735, and of 
Governor John Hancock, the signer of the Declaration as Presi- 
dent of the Continental Congress, with many other historical relics. 

It should be borne in mind that before the war, when Governor 
Banks was Governor, an attempt was made to secure the estate 
for the Commonwealth upon an offer made to sell it for one 
hundred thousand dollars. A resolve authorized its purchase, if 
approved by certain officials of the State Government. As they 
did not concur in recommending it, that opportunity was lost for 
securing what the State Government has since greatly needed, for 
many uses consistent with its dedication as a monument to 
Hancock, and its preservation as an historic edifice of our great 
struggle for independence. 

• I shall leave with the Society a copy of the report of our com- 
mittee, — City Document No. 56, 1863, — relating more at length 
what was done or left undone by the City Council. 



Amendments to the By-Laws were then adopted, providing for 
life-memberships, the appointment of standing committees, and 
increasing the number of Directors to nine. 

The Committee on the Nomination of Officers for the ensuing 
year reported as follows : — 

For Directors. 
Curtis Guild, Thomas Minns, 

Abbott Lawrence, John T. Hassam, 

Robert R. Bishop, Samuel H. Russell, 

William S. Appleton, William H. Whitmore, 

Hamilton A. Hill. 

For Clerk a?td Treasurer. 
Samuel M, Quincy. 



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A ballot was then taken, and the foregoing list of candidates 
declared to be duly elected officers of the Society for the ensuing 
year. 

Adjourned. S. M. QuiNCY, Clerk. 



DIRECTORS' MEETING. 

Boston, Jan. 13, 1883. 

Pursuant to notice duly issued by the Clerk, a meeting of the 
newly elected Board of Directors was this day held in the Clerk's 
Office, Old State House, at i P.M. Present, Messrs. Guild, 
Appleton, Minns, Hassam, Russell, and Hill. The meeting was 
called to order by the Clerk. 

On motion of Mr. Minns, the Board proceeded to ballot for 
President of the corporation for the ensuing year with the follow- 
ing result: — 

Whole number of ballots ....... 6 

Necessary for a choice ........ 4 

Curtis Guild had ......... 5 

Hamilton A. Hill i 

Curtis Guild was declared elected, and took the chair. 

Voted, That the By-Laws as amended, with a list of the officers 
and members of the Society, be added to the forthcoming report 
of the annual meeting, and that Messrs. Hill, Minns, and the 
Clerk be a committee in charge of printing the same. 

Voted, That regular meetings of the Board be held on the day 
previous to the regular meetings of the Society, at an hour to be 
fixed by the President. 

Adjoiir'ued. 

S. M. QUINCY, 

Clerk of the Board. 



BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 



OBJECTS 



TO PROMOTE THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF BOSTON, AND THE 
PRESERVATION OF ITS ANTIQUITIES. 



BY-LAWS. 



OBJECTS. 

It shall be the duty of members to carry out the objects of the Society, by collect- 
ing, by gift, loan, or purchase, books, manuscripts, and pictures, and by such 
other suitable means as may, from time to time, seem expedient. 

II. 

MEMBERS. 

The members of the Bostonian Society shall be such persons, either resident 
or non-resident in Boston, as shall, after being proposed as candidates at any 
regular monthly meeting of the Society, be elected by ballot by votes of two-thirds 
of the members present and voting at said meeting. All the former members of 
the Boston Antiquarian Club, however, shall, until July i, 1S82, on application, 
be admitted to membership without a ballot. 

The limit of membership of the Society shall be one thousand. , 

III. 

HONORARY AND CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. 

Honorary and Corresponding members shall be nominated by the Directors, 
and shall be elected by ballot by two-thirds of the members present and voting. 
They may take part in the meetings of the Society, but shall not be entitled to 
vote. 

IV. 

ADMISSION FEE AND ASSESSMENTS. 

Each member shall pay five dollars at the time of his admission, and five dol- 
lars each first of January afterwards, into the treasury of the Society for its gen- 
eral purposes; but if any member shall neglect to pay his admission fee, or 
annual assessment, for three months after the same is due, he shall be liable to 
forfeit his membership at any time when the Directors shall so order. 

The payment of the sum of fifty dollars at any one time by any member of the 
Society shall constitute such member a life member of the Society. The money 
received for such life memberships shall constitute a permanent fund, the income 
of which shall be devoted to the genei-al uses of the Society. 



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V. 

CERTIFICATES. 

Certificates signed by the President, and countersigned by the Treasurer, shall 
be issued to all persons who have become members of the Society. 

VI. 

MEETINGS. 

The annual meeting of the Society shall be held on the second Tuesday in Jan- 
uary, and regular meetings shall be held on the second Tuesday of every month, 
excepting July, August, and September, at such time and place as the Directors 
shall appoint. Special meetings shall be called by the Clerk, under the instruc- 
tion of the Directors. 

At all meetings ten members shall be a quorum for business. All Committees 
shall be nominated by the Chair unless otherwise ordered. 

VII. 

OFFICERS. 

The officers of the Society shall be nine Directors, a President, a Clerk, and a 
Treasurer. The Directors, Clerk, and Treasurer shall be chosen by ballot at the 
annual meeting in January, and shall hold office for one year, and until others 
are duly chosen and qualified in their stead. 

The President shall be chosen by the Board of Directors, from their number, at 
their first meeting after election, or at any adjournment thereof. 

The offices of Clerk and Treasurer may be held by the same person. 

VIII. 

VACANCIES, 

Any vacancy in the Board of Directors, or the office of Clerk or Treasurer, may 
be filled for the remainder of the term at any regular meeting of the Society, by 
the votes of two-thirds of the members present and voting. 

In the absence of the Clerk at any meeting of the Society, a Clerk _^;-tf tempore 
shall be chosen. 

IX. 

NOMINATING COMMITTEE. 

At the monthly meeting in December, a Nominating Committee of three 
persons shall be appointed, who shall report at the annual meeting a list of 
candidates for the places to be filled. 

X. 

PRESIDING OFFICER. 

The President shall preside at all meetings of the Society when present, and 
when absent, one of the Directors. In the absence of all these ofiicers, a Presi- 
dent ^r<? tempore shall be chosen. 

XL 

DUTIES OF CLERK. 

The Clerk shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of his duties. 
He shall notify all meetings of the Society. He shall keep an e.xact record of 
all the proceedings of the Societj- at its meetings. 



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He shall conduct the general correspondence of the Society, and place on file 
all letters received. 

He shall enter the names of members systematically in books kept for the 
purpose, and issue certificates of membership. 

The Clerk shall have charge of all books, tracts, maps, manuscripts, and 
pictures in the possession of the Society; and shall cause to be made and kept 
exact and perfect catalogues of each and all of them, doing whatever may be 
in his power at all times to preserve and increase the collections under his care. 

He shall acknowledge each loan or gift that may be made to the Society. 

xn. 

* DUTIES OF TREASURER. 

The Treasurer shall collect all moneys due to the Society, and pay all bills 
against the Society, when approved by the Board of Directors. 

He shall keep a full account of receipts and expenditures in a book belonging 
to the Society, which shall always be open to the inspection of the Directors; 
and, at the annual meeting in January, he shall make a written report of all his 
doings for the year preceding. 

The Treasurer shall give bond in the sum of one hundred dollars, with one 
surety, for the faithful discharge of his duties. 

XIII. 

DUTIES AND POWERS OF DIRECTORS. 

The Directors shall superintend and conduct the prudential and executive 
business of the Society; shall authorize all expenditures of money; fix all 
salaries ; provide a common seal ; receive and act upon all resignations and for- 
feitures of membership, and see that the By-Laws are duly complied with. 

The Directors shall have full power to comply with the terms of the lease of 
the rooms in the Old State House made with the City of Boston, and to make 
all necessary rules and regulations required in the premises. 

They shall annually, in the month of April, make a careful comparison of the 
articles in the possession of the Society with the list to be returned to the City 
of Boston under the terms of the lease, and certify to its correctness. 

The^' shall make a report of their doings at the annual meeting of the Society. 

The Directors may, from time to time, appoint such sub-committees as they 
deem expedient. 

In case of a vacancy in the office of Clerk or Treasurer, they shall have power 
to choose a Clerk or Treasurer /ro tempore till the next meeting of the Society. 

XIV. 

MEETINGS OF DIRECTORS. 

Meetings of the Directors shall be held in such manner as they may appoint; 
and they shall fix their own quorum for business. 

XV. 

FINANCE COMMITTEE. 

The President shall annually, in the month of January, appoint two Directors, 
who, with the President, shall constitute the Committee on Finance, to examine, 



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from time to time, the books and accounts of the Treasurer; to audit his accounts 
at the close of the year, and to report upon the expediency of proposed expen- 
ditures of money. 

XVI. 

STANDING COMMITTEES. 

The President shall annually, in the month of January, appoint three standing 
committees, as follows : — 

Committee on tkc Rooms. 

A committee of five members, to be styled the Committee on the Rooms, who 
shall have charge of all the interior arrangements of the rooms, including the 
acceptance or rejection of all articles offered as gifts or loans, the hanging of 
pictures, and the general arrangement of the Society's collections; also, the em- 
ployment and compensation of custodians. 

Committee on Papers. 

A committee of three members, to be styled the Committee on Papers, who 
shall have charge of the subject of papers to be read, or other exercises of a like 
nature, at the monthly meetings of the Society. 

Committee on Increased Membership. 
A committee often or more members, to be styled the Committee on Increased 
Membership, whose duty it shall be to increase the membership of the Society 
among all interested in its purposes and objects. 

Said committees shall have power to fill all vacancies which may occur during 
their term of service. 

XVII. 

AMENDMENTS TO BY-LAWS. 

Amendments to the By-Laws may be made, at any annual meeting, by the vote 
of two-thirds of the members present and voting. They may also be made by 
the like vote at any regular meeting, provided notice of the same be contained in 
a call for such meeting issued by the Clerk, and sent to every member. 



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OFFICERS FOR 1883. 



President. 

CURTIS GUILD 



Directors. 



Curtis Guild, 
Abbott Lawrence, 
Robert R. Bishop, 
William S. Appleton, 



Thomas Minns, 
John T. Hassam, 
Samuel H. Russell, 
William H. Whitmore, 



Hamilton A. Hill. 



Clerk and Treasurer. 
Samuel M. Qjjincy. 

Committee on the Rooms. 



William H. Whitmore, 
William S. Appleton, 



Samuel H. Russell, 
James Rindge Stanwood, 



Dudley R. Child. 

Committee on Papers. 
Hamilton A. Hill, | E. F. Slafter, 

James F. Hunnewell. 

Committee 07i Increased Membership. 



G. Washington Warren, 
James F. Hunnewell, 



Nathan Appleton, 
J. C. J. Brown, 
Edward F. Thayer. 



MEMBERS. 



Samuel P. Allen, 
Stillman B. Allen, 
Thomas J. Allen, 
Oakes A. Ames, 
Frederick Amory, 
Thomas C. Amory, 
Nathan Appleton, 
William S. Appleton, 
Edward Atkinson, 



Abraham Avery, 
Joseph T. Bailey, 
William H. Baldwin, 
John N. Barbour, 
Charles D. Barry, 
Arlo Bates, 
Leander Beal, 
J. Arthur Beebe, 
A. D. S. Bell, 



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S. Arthur Bent, 

Alanson Bigelow, 

George B. Bigelow, 

Robert C. Billings, 

Charles Biner, 

Robert R. Bishop, 

John E. Blakeniore, 

Joshua P. Bodfish, 

Charles P. Bowditch, 

Martin L. Bradford (Life Member), 

Caleb D. Bradlee, 

John T. Bradlee, 

Charles Rollin Brainard, 

John L. Bremer, 

Richard Briggs, 

Cephas Brigham, 

Martin Brimmer, 

Henrj C. Brooks, 

Peter C. Brooks, 

Phillips Brooks, 

Alfred S. Brown, 

Buckminster Brown, 

J. C. J. Brown, 

James Wentworth Brown, 

C. Allen Browne. 

T. Quincy Browne, 

Alvah A. Burrage, 

George S. Bullens, 

Sigournej Butler, 

B. S. Calef, 

Norman Call, 

John W. Candler, 

John J. Cannon, 

Frank O. Carpenter, 

Charles M. Carter, 

Mellen Chamberlain, 

Horace P. Chandler, 

George B. Chase (Life Member), 

Theodore Chase (Life Member), 

Dudley R. Child, 

N. Bowditch Clapp, 

Cyrus T. Clark, 

D. Oakes Clark, 

Botsford R. Clarke, 

Dorus Clarke, 

James Freeman Clarke, 

T. W. Clarke, 

Samuel W. Clifford, 

Samuel W. Clifford, jr., 

George A. Clough, 



Alexander Cochrane, 
William C. Codman, 
Henry F. Coe, 
Jeremiah Colburn, 
Ebenezer Collamore, 
A. L. Coolidge, 
Robert S. Covell, 
S. W. Creech, jr., 
George G. Crocker, 
Uriel Crocker, 
Samuel B. Cruft, 
Edward Cunningham, 
F. H. Cunningham, 
Charles H. Dalton, 
Isaac W. Danforth, 
James H. Danforth, 
Moses Grant Daniell, 
James C. Davis, 
John Ward Dean, 
Stephen G. Deblois, 
S. Parkman Dexter, 
William S. Dexter, 
M. F. Dickinson, jr., 
Oliver Ditson, 

John H. Dix, 

Theodore A. Dodge, 

Jacob A. Dresser, 

Charles H. Drew, 

Loren G. DuBois, 

James A. Dupee, 

Edmund Dvvight, 

Benjamin F. Dyer, 

Otis Eddy, 

H. H. Edes, 

William Endicott, jr. , 

Dana Estes (Life Member), 

Percival L. Everett, 

George F. Fabyan, 

A. C. Fearing, jr., 

Mortimer C. Ferris, 

Eustace C. Fitz, 

A. A. Folsom, 

H. W. Foote, 

J. Murray Forbes, 

Robert B. Forbes, 

Edward J. Forster, 

Charles E. French, 

Frederick W. French, 
J. D. VYilliams French, 

Rufus S. Frost, 



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B. A. G. Fuller, 
Charles E. Fuller, 
Robert O. Fuller, 
Henry E. Gardner, 
John L. Gardner, jr., 
Henry Gassett, 
Frederick L. Gay, 
Jos. M. Gibbens, 
Daniel A. Gleason, 
J. M. Glidden, 
Charles B. Gookin, 
James L. Gorham, 
Isaac P. Gragg, 
Joseph H. Gray, 
George H. Green, 
Charles P. Greenough; 
F. B. Greenough, 
Malcolm S. Greenough, 
W. W. Greenough, 

W. O. Grover, 
Curtis Guild, 
George K. Guild, 
E. E. Hale, 
Edward R. Hall, 
Thomas B. Hall, 
Richard P. Hallowell, 
Charles L. Harding, 
George W. Hammond, 
Charles Harris, 
William T. Hart, 
John T. Hassam, 
Henry W. Haynes, 
Alfred Hemenway, 
Alfred H. Hersey, 
Waldo Higginson, 
Clement Hugh Hill, 
Hamilton A. Hill, 
Henry B. Hill, 
Thomas Hills, 
Alfred D. Hoitt, 
Henry W. Holland, 
Charles H. Holman, 

C. D. Homans, 
George H. Homans, 
Henry O. Houghton, 
George D. Howe, 
Osborn Howes, jr., 
Aaron D. Hubbard, 
Richard C. Humphrey's, 
James F. Hunnewell, 



Charles Inches, 
Charles E. Inches, 
George Abbot James, 
Henry F. Jenks, 
Thomas L. Jenks, 
Bernard Jenney, 

C. E. Johnson, 
Samuel Johnson, 
Leonard A. Jones, 
M. P. Kennard, 
W. H. Kennard, 
H. P. Kidder, 
Benjamin Kimball, 
Herbert W. Kimball, 

D. Webster King, 
Nathaniel W. Ladd, 
William H. Ladd, 
George Lamb, 
John Lathrop, 
Abbott Lawrence, 
William H. Lee, 
John A. Lewis, 
Weston Lewis, 

F. W. Lincoln, 
Samuel Little, 
Hartley Lord, 
S. K. Lothrop, 
T. K. Lothrop, 
Joseph 8. Lovering, 
Henry Lyon, 
Robert C. Mackay, 
Thomas Mair, 
Francis H. Manning, 
Fred. G. May, 
Fred. W. G. May, 
John Joseph May, 
Samuel May, 
Edward R. Mayo, 
William G. Means, 
Henry F. Mills, 
William N. Mills, 
Thomas Minns, 
Francis Minot, 
Frederick H. Moore, 
H. A. Morse, 
Andrew Nickerson, 
Thomas Niles, 
John Noble, 
Grenville H. Norcross, 
Frederick R. Nourse, 



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James R. Osgood, 
Edward Page, 
John C. Paige, 
J. S. Paine, 
R. T. Paine, jr., 
F. W. Palfrey, 
John C. Palfrej, 
Charles W. Parker, 
Harvey D. Parker, 
Albert S. Parsons, 
Charles B. Peabody, 
Henry W. Peabody, 
Aug. T. Perkins, 
C. C. Perkins, 
William Perkins, 
Charles F. Perry, 
Jacob Pfaff, 
John C. Phillips, 
George F. Pierce, 
Phineas Pierce, 
Charles Lawrence Pierson, 
Albert C. Pond, 
Alex. S. Porter, 
John W. Porter, 
Edward Ellerton Pratt, 
John C. Pratt, 
Laban Pratt, 
Geo. H. Preble, 
Jonathan Preston, 
William G. Preston, 
George F. Putnam, 
Josiah Qiiincy, 
Samuel M. Qjiincy, 
William Read, 
Augustus Richardson, 
George C. Richardson, 
George Ripley, 
Nathan D. Robinson, 
Alfred P. Rockwell, 
Henry B. Rogers, 
John C. Ropes, 
Augustus Russ, 
Samuel II. Russell, 
William Applcton Rust, 
D. W. Salisbury, 
Edwin H. Sampson, 
George D. Sargent, 
Joseph Sawyer, 
Samuel E. Sawyer, 
Geo. W. Searle, 



J. Henry Sears, 
J. Montgomery Sears, 
Samuel E. Sewall, 
George O. Shattuck, 
Lemuel Shaw, 
William G. Shillaber, 
Lucius Slade, 
E. F. Slafter, 
Andrew C. Slater, 
William H. Slocum, 
Charles C. Smith, 
Elbridge Smith, 
George H. Snelling, 
Samuel G. Snelling, 
S. T. Snow, 
Henry Souther, 

A. J. C. Sowdon, 
Henry H. Sprague, 
L. Miles Standish, 
James Rindge Stanwood, 
Amos W. Stetson, 
Oliver Crocker Stevens, 
James E. Stone, 

W. Brandt Storer, 
Franklin H. Story, 
Edward A. Strong, 
W. W. Swan, 

B. W. Taggard, 
Newton Talbot, 
Thomas F. Temple, 
W. F. Temple, 
Edward F. Thayer, 
Geo. A. Thayer, 
Edward Isaiah Thomas, 
John A. Thompson, 

S. Lothrop Thorndike, 
Walter E. Thwing, 
Benjamin B. Torrey, 
W. B. Trask, 
Arthur W. Tufts, 
Job A. Turner, jr., 
George B. Upton, 

F. A. Varney, 
Fred H. Viaux, 
J. Thomas Vose, 
Thomas B. Vose, 
Alex. F. Wadsworth, 
Henshaw B. Walley, 
Francis J. Ward, 

G. Washington Warren, 



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S. D. Warren, 

William Wilkins Warren, 

Winslow Warren, 

Charles A. Welch, 

A. Davis Weld, jr., 

Moses W. Weld, 

Otis Everett Weld (Life Member), 

Samuel Wells, 

Mark R. Wendell, 

W. W. Wheildon, 

J. Gardner White, 

Charles T. White, 

Charles J. Whitmore, 

C. O. Whitmore (Life Member), 
William H. Whitmore, 

D. R. Whitney, 



Edward Whitney, 

William S. Whitwell, 

Arthur W. Willard, 

R. Willard, 

Levi L. Willcutt, 

S. D. G. Willcutt, 

Alexander Williams, 

Jacob L. Williams, 

Erving Winslow, 

W. C. Winslow, 

R. C. Winthrop, jr. (Life Member), 

J. Huntington Wolcott, 

William B. Wood, 

William Elliot Woodward, 

William WooUey, 

John Worster. 



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BOSTONIAN SOCIETY, 



ANNUAL MEETING, JANUAKY 8, 1884. 




384005 



PROCEEDINGS 



BOSTONIAN SOCIETY 



Annual Meeting, January 8, 1884. 




Boston: 

OLD STATE HOUSE. 

PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE SOCIETY, 



M.D CCC.LXXX I V , 



Press of 

CONANT & NEWHALL, 

32 Hawley Street, Boston. 



CONTENTS. 



Illustration : — 

View of the Old State House, Frontispiece. 



I. President's Address, 5 

II. Directors' Report, ...... 10 

III. Report of the Treasurer, . . . . . 13 

IV. Report of the Committee on the Rooms, . 14 
V. Report of the Nominating Committee, . . 25 

VI. Accessions to the Library Collections. . 27 

VII. Accessions to the Society's Collections, . . 28 

VIII. Loan Collection, ...... 37 

IX. Officers for 1884, 45 

X. Roll of Membership, ..... 46 

XI. By-Laws, 51 



BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 



THIRD ANNUAL MEETING. 



Boston, January 8, 1884. 

Pursuant to notice duly issued by the clerk, the third annual 
meeting was this day held in the Council Chamber, Old State 
House, at 3 P. M., President Curtis Guild in the Chair. The 
records of the last meeting were read and approved. After the 
election of new members the President addressed the meeting as 
follows : — 

PRESIDENT GUILD'S ADDRESS. 

Fellotv members of the Bostonian Society : 

It is gratifying to be able to state, that this our third annual 
meeting, finds our Society in a healthful condition, free from any 
debt or incumbrance, with a roll of about 340 members composed 
of those who are more or less identified and interested in the ad- 
vancement of the interests of the city of Boston. 

The objects for which this Society was formed appear now to 
be more generally appreciated and understood by the public than 
at the outset, and as our organization advances in age and useful- 
ness will receive increased support from all who recognize the 
utility of our efforts. While there are in our city and State sev- 
eral excellent organizations which in the carrying out of their 
objects have rescued from destruction, or preserved for the ad- 
vantage of the student and historian important historical docu- 
ments, mementos and antiquities of great importance, and their 
members have through the advantages thus afforded them been 
able to give to the public histories and records of great value, yet 
from the very nature of those organizations and the rules and 
regulations under which they exist and are governed, it is impos- 



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sible that the public at large can have free access to their collec- 
tions, or that any but members or favored students can fully enjoy 
the advantages they afford. 

This is from no lack of courtesy on their part, but simply 
from the fact that private antiquarian or historical societies would 
find it impossible to provide suitable rooms as places of public re- 
sort, or to display their collections of antiquities or those placed 
in their charge except at great risk and expense. To the stu- 
dent or historian, however, or even interested visitor, every facility 
is afforded by our different societies as far as possible consonant 
with the rules and laws under which they exist. 

Our own Society has received the most kindly treatment and 
favor from our good friend the New England Historic Gene- 
alogical Society, which courteously gave us the use of its rooms at 
the outset of our career, and also from the Massachusetts Historical 
Society which in the kindest manner possible loaned this Society on 
its taking possession of these Memorial Halls, several of its most 
valuable portraits, paintings and other articles illustrative of the 
early history of Boston. 

The interest awakened by the display of these objects here, the 
active inquiries of visitors as to their whereabouts since their re- 
moval, prove to us most conclusively if any proof were necessary, 
that one of the principal objects of the forming of this Society 
was correct and the method adopted to carry out that object was 
one for which a demand existed and that our endeavor to satisfy 
such demand has thus far received the cordial approval of his- 
torians, literary men and antiquarians as well as the general jDublic. 

The method referred to is, that in the effort to promote the study 
of the history of Boston, we endeavor to offer all the advantage 
possible to the public at large by a full and free display here in 
these Memorial Halls of such objects connected with the history 
of the city as shall afford any person who may desire to visit and 
inspect them, full opportunity to do so freely, from the savant 
seeking to solve a doubt, to the schoolboy who has had his atten- 
tion awakened by his first lessons in American history. 

Besides the large number of visitors whose names are recorded 
in our register the past year, which does not indicate all who have 
visited these Halls, the interest in historical relics in the Old South 
Meeting House where a fee of admission is charged, is also shown 
by an increase of visitors ranging from 8971 in 1880, to 12,396 
in 1883. 



The interest of many of these visitors, as those who have had 
opportunity to observe have remarked, is something; beyond that 
of a mere i;ratification of idle curiosity ; it extends further, and is 
that of a desire for more perfect understanding of a history of the 
past, and for strengthening or adding knowledge of historical 
events to that already acquired. 

In the preservation of the antiquities of Boston, the Society 
considers it a part of its duty, whenever any historical landmark 
or monument is threatened, either by vandalism or specious legis- 
lation, to promptly put forth its efforts to protect and oppose any 
unnecessary mutilation or destruction of such objects. Hitherto, 
as is well known, such action has generally been left to individuals 
and their efforts to preserve memorials of acknowledged value 
have often been stigmatized as an absurd display of sentiment. 

There is not a city in the United States that has a more inter- 
esting history than Boston ; in fact the early history of the country 
began at Plymouth and Boston. Settled in 1630, ten years after 
the Pilgrims first set foot on Plymouth Rock, Boston was, up to the 
time of the Revolution, the first town in influence and the largest 
in population in the country. And as we glance back through the 
records of history upon the scenes that have been enacted here, 
the great men that have lived here, the important measures that 
have been carried out by Boston statesmen, legislators and gen- 
erals — influencing the government and progress of the whole 
country down to the present day, we feel that in this city the very 
building of the Nation was begun, and that no historian can tell 
the true story of the formation of the American Republic without 
making this his starting point. 

This utterance is made in no vain-glorious spirit of boasting, but 
simply to call attention to the fact that the stories of the principal 
acts that led to the American Revolution, the early scenes of the 
Revolution itself enacted here, stories which are to be found 
in reading-books in every school-house in the land, which are set 
forth in children's story-books in attractive style, and even form the 
foundations for the fanciful creations of poet and novelist, natur- 
ally excite a desire to witness actual localities and objects asso- 
ciated with the actors of those times. 

The difficulty of to-day giving a stranger an accurate idea of the 
old-time appearance of Boston, from localities as they at present 
appear, is apparent to those who are cognizant of the changes that 



have been made even within the past half century. To the visitor 
to-day, the name Trimountain city, as some used to call old Boston, 
would seem to be really a misnomer, for he would look in vain in 
any direction for the three hills. Fort Hill has utterly and com- 
pletely disappeared, and the spot where it stood is flat as the dead 
level of the streets that surround it. Copp's Hill, were it not for the 
old burial-ground that has been spared, has been so reduced and 
graded away that it can hardly be rated as high ground. 
Beacon Hill, where the three peaks really existed, alone presents 
any appearance of a hill ; and that, although shorn of the high 
point which bore the beacon and the broad slopes that were dug 
down, razed and graded into the streets and squares all about it, 
still remains, — even in its abbreviated proportions a high ground 
crowned with the dome of the State House o'ertopping all, a pic- 
turesque and beautiful landmark. 

But if the old Bostonian returning, map in hand for a guide, 
seeks in vain for that which has disappeared, how much more be- 
wildered must he be upon finding spread out before him the mag- 
nificent new territory which seems as if it must have been called 
into existence by the wand of an enchanter, so rapidly has it risen 
into existence. 

The little pear-shaped peninsula, which was originally less than 
two miles in length and scarcely one at its greatest breadth, con- 
nected with Roxbury by a slender strip of land, which was fre- 
quently washed by the high tides — with mud flats, swamps, salt 
marshes and estuaries surrounding it — according to records of the 
historian, has increased from its original 700 acres of territory to 
nearly treble that number — and where the area was once the 
narrowest it is now the widest. Where once were flats, marshes 
or the deep flowing tide where many of us here present have 
rowed boats, swum, or skated in boyhood, now stand stately 
dwellings, costly churches and galleries of art, upon broad and 
beautiful avenues that rival the most celebrated in any city of the 
world. 

The great conflagration of 1872, while it obliterated many of the 
familiar landmarks of old Boston, enabled the city government 
to lay out the most important part of the business section of the 
city in broad and convenient avenues for the purposes of trade, so 
that the visitor who desires to realize any point to the ancient joke 
respecting tortuous streets, must now seek the oldest portion of 
the old-fashioned north end of the city. 



With so much of old Boston disappearing before the march of 
progress and needed improvement, the usefulness of a society like 
our own for rescuing all that is possible for the benefit of the stu- 
dent and historian will readily be appreciated. 

The city government of Boston, in restoring these Memorial 
fialls and keeping them open to the public, has certainly shown a 
liberal and patriotic spirit. None of our cities can point to such 
mementos of the early history of the country, and round which 
cluster so many historical associations as Boston's Faneuil Hall, 
Old State House, and Old South, and no act of municipal council 
has been more gratefully commended than that which has pre- 
served and maintained this historic edifice. 

The Bostonian Society gratefully acknowledges the confidence 
that was shown in making it the custodian of these Memorial 
Halls, and I am sure will spare no effort to prove itself in every 
way worthy of the trust. 

We have been gratified this year as in the year previous, by the 
approval which the efforts of the Society have received from 
visitors from other cities who have expressed themselves very 
much gratified at the privilege enjoyed in being able to freely 
visit these Memorial Halls and the greatest interest in the me- 
mentos that are here displayed. An interest especially marked 
has been shown by young people, all of which tends to show that 
a still larger collection for which we have now ample space in the 
additional apartments that have recently been finished, would 
profitably entertain both young and old. It is proper to state that 
all articles placed in charge of the Society, and anything 
given or loaned to it has the most watchful care at all hours, not 
only from custodians in attendance, but also from the Committee 
on the Rooms who inspect them daily, and that thus far not the 
slightest injury has been received by any of the articles on exhi- 
bition and nothing has been lost or stolen. 

Although the progress of a Society like ours is necessarily 
slow and all of its management voluntary, I can but feel that 
now being firmly established, decided advance can and should 
be made in increasing our membership, in rendering the monthly 
meetings attractive and interesting, and in various other ways 
indicating that the Bostonian Society is a thoroughly active and 
working, as well as an eminently respectable organization, and 
would respectfully urge upon individual members to see that 



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the entire labor in these above mentioned directions is not 
allowed to devolve upon a few who consent to serve in the 
several offices of the Society. 

I know that you will all sincerely regret that our friend and 
fellow member, Gen. S. M. Ouincy, one of the original members 
and first President of the Antiquarian Club, the predecessor of 
this institution, of which he was also one of the charter members, 
feels obliged to decline serving further as Clerk and Treasurer. 
The Society owes him not only its cordial thanks for his faithful 
official service the past two years, but also for many influences 
brought to bear that have been to its advantage. 

During the past year we have been called upon to mourn the 
loss of four of our members, Hon. George W. Warren, of Boston, 
a gentleman of patriotic and generous impulses, and one of our 
most enthusiastic and active members, died in May last. 

Mr. Dudley R. Child, of Boston, a member who also took a great 
interest in the Society, and who was one of its original charter 
members, died also in May; and Messrs. David O. Clark and 
Aaron D. Hubbard, died in December. 

The report of the Treasurer, the Board of Directors and the 
Committee on the Rooms, will give the state of the Society's finan- 
ces, and an interesting account of its general management and pro- 
gress during the year, the accessions that have been made to the 
Society's collection of mementos and their disposition and 
arrangement. 

In conclusion we may congratulate ourselves upon the har- 
mony that has thus far prevailed in our Society, and with the 
well grounded hope that we may continue to carry forward suc- 
cessfully, work that has been so auspiciously begun. 



The annual report of the Board of Directors was then read, as 
follows, by Mr. Thomas Minns : — 

SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS. 

The Directors respectfully report as follows : — 

Since the last annual meeting, a report of which has been pub- 
lished and distributed, the progress of the Society has been in 
many respects eminently satisfactory, and evidences of the high 
and increasing estimation in which it is held by the citizens of 



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Boston, have not been wanting. Interesting historical papers 
have been read before the Society as follows : — 

B)' Rev. D. G. Haskins, of Cambridge, on "A Boston Memo- 
rial of an Important Event in the Colonial History of Massachu- 
setts " ; reference being had to the name of Charter Street, com 
memorating the charter of William and Mary, an event of peculiar 
importance in view of its effect upon the separation of Church and 
State. 

By Mr. James H. Stark, on " The Recent Discovery of the site of 
the House of John Mayo and Cotton Mather," with a topographical 
description of the estate from the first grantee to the present 
owner. 

By Rev. Henry F. Jenks, on " The old Latin School Buildings on 
School Street." 

Early in the year the President and Clerk appeared in behalf of 
the Society, before the legislative committee, in opposition to the 
proposal to take a portion of the Common for a highway, and the 
attack was defeated, the Committee reporting " inexpedient to 
legislate." 

In reply to a communication from the Committee on the Rooms 
enclosing a copy of the pamphlet report of the Annual Proceed- 
ings, the Society has received from the Mayor and Corporation of 
Boston, England, an interesting and valuable collection of pictures 
and books relating to that borough. This handsome gift has been 
suitably acknowledged, and one of a like nature relating to our 
own city has been returned. 

The whole number of names added to the rolls of the Society 

during the j^ast year, is . , . ... 36 

Resigned, ......... 6 

Died, 4 

Whole number of members, ...... 338 

As the existence, purposes and objects of the Society, together 
with the work already accomplished, are daily becoming more 
widely known and understood, we are convinced that an organized 
effort is all that is needed to attain the desired object of a largely 
increased membership. The requisite action it is understood will 
soon be taken by the Standing Committee on this subject, and it is 
hoped that every member will give all the assistance in his power 
towards the attainment of this desirable end. 

The additions during the past year by gift and loan to the So- 



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ciety's collections and library have been numerous, interesting and 
valuable. The detailed report upon this subject has been prepared 
by Mr. James Rindge Stanwood, of the Committee on the Rooms, to 
whose indefatigable zeal and industry the Directors cannot pay too 
high a tribute. 

In accordance with a long previously announced determination, 
Gen. Samuel M. Quincy now retires from the position of Clerk 
and Treasurer of the Society, which he has held since its organi- 
zation, and his resignation has been accepted by the Directors. 

His services to this Society and to its predecessor, the Boston 
Antiquarian Club, of which he was the first President, extending 
over four years, have exacted a great amount of labor and constant 
personal attention, which have been most cheerfully and efficiently 
contributed by our retiring officer. To his perseverance, tact, in- 
dustry, and interest in its objects, the Bostonian Society is deeply 
indebted for its present prosperous and harmonious condition, and 
for the attractive attitude it now presents to the public. 

Necrology for 1883. 

[The figures at the left indicate the year of admission to the Society.] 

1882. Dudley Richards Child, of Boston. Born in Hillsborough, 111., 
June 23, 1845 ; died in Oakland, Cal, May 12, 1883. 

1882. Hon. George Washington Warren, of Boston. Born in 
Charlestown, Mass., October i, 1813 ; died in Bos- 
ton, May 13, 1883. 

1852. Aaron Dean Hubbard, of Boston. Born in Charlestown, 
N. H., died in Boston, December 7, 1883. 

1882. David Oakes Clark, of Milton, Mass. Born in Cambridge, 
Mass., December i, 1826; died in Milton, Mass., De- 
cember 13, 1883. 

All of which is respectfully submitted, 

CURTIS GUILD. 
ABBOTT LAWRENCE, 
ROBERT R. BISHOP, 
WILLIAM S. APPLETON, 
THOMAS MINNS, 
JOHN T. HASSAM. 
SAMUEL H. RUSSELL, 
WILLIAM H. WHITMORE. 
HAMILTON A. HILL, 

Directors. 



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The Treasurer then presented his annual report, as follows : 
TREASURER'S REPORT. 

Receipts. 

Balance in Bank, January i, 18S3 ....... $774 10 

Life Memberships ........... 350 00 

Admission Fees and Assessments ....... 1,680 00 

Int. on deposit N. E. Trust Co. ........ 49 06 

Sales of leaflet ........... 4 00 

A member for frames .......... 2 50 



$2,859 66 



Expenditures 

City Rent .... 

Compensation of Custodians 
Bookcase .... 

Shades .... 

Glass case and fittings 

Cost of printing and issuing pamphlet report of annual meeting 

Cabot & Bro. for framing ........ 

Plates purchased from A. O. Crane, pursuant to vote 
Expenses incurred in despatch of gift to Boston, England 
Engraving of Lafayette ........ 



Sundry purchases for the Society and incidental expenses made and 
authorized bv the Committee on the Rooms and the Treasurer . 



$100 


00 


392 


28 


50 


50 


5 


50 


43 


16 


SS 


-5 


126 


S5 


62 


00 


24 


58 


10 


00 



903 12 



iio 83 



Balance in N. E. Trust Co. 



1.213 95 
i>645 71 



$2,859 66 
S. M. QUINCY, Treasurer. 



Boston, Jan. 7, 1SS4. 
The undersigned have examined the Treasurer's accounts to Jan. i, 1SS4, and 
find the same to be correctly cast and properly vouched, and showing a balance 
of sixteen hundred and forty-five (1645 71) dollars and seventy-one cents, in the 
New England Trust Co. 

CURTIS GUILD, 
(Signed,) SAMUEL H. RUSSELL, 

THOMAS MINNS, 

Finance Committee. 



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Mr. James Rindge Stanwood then read the first annual report 
of the Committee on the Rooms, as follows : 

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE ROOMS. 

Mr. Chainnan : — 

The Committee on the Rooms, appointed by you at the last annual 
meeting, in accordance with Article XVI, Section II, of the 
amended by-laws, respectfully tenders the following report con- 
cerning the duties which have devolved upon it : 

PROGRESS OF THE SOCIETY. 

In reviewing the record of the past year, it becomes the agree- 
able duty of your committee to congratulate the Society upon a 
marked and most undoubted progression towards the accom- 
plishment of the objects for which it was chartered. Evidence has 
not been wanting to impress upon us the fact that a growing inclin- 
ation exists in this community to favor the preservation from de- 
struction of such landmarks of the early history of the Province 
and the State as yet remain within the limits of the municipality. 
This spirit is undoubtedly capable of exerting a most beneficial 
influence towards the formation of a strong public sentiment in 
sympathy with the field of work which the Society has under- 
taken to glean. 

Did time and space allow, it would be interesting to detail some of 
the many indications of the increased approval with which the 
purposes of our Society are generally regarded. It will, how- 
ever, suffice to say, that during the past twelve months a very 
large number of persons have manifested their disposition to 
actively co-operate with us in forming within these walls the 
nucleus of an historical collection, which, we trust, may be brought 
in time to embrace many interesting memorials of Boston and 
New England. 

Open constantly to the public, these rooms are continually visited 
by a very large number of persons, many of whom are residents of 
other portions of the country. Were, indeed, anything lacking to 
assure the corporation of Boston as to the wisdom of the policy 
which it has most happily adopted in the restoration of this ven- 
erable building, abundant and most conclusive proof of the public 
approbation could be readily afforded. Many of our fellow-citizens, 
not numbered among our members, who have, from a desire to see 



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what has been accomplished, examined the collections which have 
thus far been made, have without exception commended warmly the 
aim of the Society. Upon the other hand, the custodians report 
that that portion of the general public which comes to our city 
from the South and West, and is led to visit this building as a 
structure of national interest, has expressed much gratification at 
the privileges afforded it in these halls. 

EVIDENCES OF PUBLIC INTEREST. 

The community at large has the past year exhibited practical 
evidence of its willingness to co-operate with us through the con- 
tribution of many objects of interest to swell our collections, and 
in the opinion of your committee, this disposition is sure to increase. 
Among the oil paintings which have been placed in our custody 
we mention a portrait of Peter Pelham, the early Boston engraver, 
by Copley, lent by Mr. William H. Whitmore ; a fine portrait by 
Copley, of the Hon. John Codman, a Boston merchant of the 
Revolutionary period, lent by Captain John Codman ; a painting 
by J. W. A. Scott, giving a fine view of Boston Harbor, from Fort 
Hill to Foster's wharf, in 1853, from Mr. John Gray ; a portrait of 
Hannah Adams, the authoress, from Mr. George K. Daniell, of 
Wellesley Hills, and a portrait of Major Daniel Simpson, the vet- 
eran musician, by Darius Cobb, given by Major Simpson, accom- 
panied by a drum which descended to his possession from John 
Robbins, and which was beaten at the battle of Bunker Hill. We 
have likewise received an excellent portrait of Major Thomas 
Melvill, painted by Alexander, and lent by his daughter, Mrs. Nancy 
M, Downer, of this city, to whom, jointly with Mr. John L. D'Wolf, 
we are likewise indebted for the possession of an interesting his- 
torical painting by Salmon, entitled: "A Representation of the late 
Thomas Melvill, Esq"^^ House." This picture is valuable as af- 
fording an excellent view of Green Street, fifty years ago. Several 
of the buildings shown are yet standing, the most noticeable being 
the structure then known as the Advent Church, which, slightly 
changed, is at present occupied by Dickerman's Box Factory. The 
large wooden building in the foreground represents the house of 
Major Melvill, an estimable citizen well known to Bostonians fifty 
years ago. A pastel of this gentleman, attributed to John Single- 
ton Copley, together with his staff of office as fire-ward of Boston, 
from 1779 to 1825, and the antique cocked hat which he is said 



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to have worn at the Boston Massacre, have been confided to the 
custody of the Society, through the courtesy of Mr. John S. 
Damrell, trustee. 

ENGRAVINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS. 

In the department of engravings, the Society has reason to con- 
gratulate itself upon the addition of a large number to its collec- 
tions. Your committee expresses its gratification at the interest 
shown in this direction by our members, which it trusts may not be 
allowed to flag. Among the gentlemen who have contributed arti- 
cles of this class may be mentioned Mr. James A. Dupee, Mr. Ed- 
ward Ellerton Pratt, Rev. Joseph May, of Leicester, Mr. F. W. G. 
May, Mr. William H. Whitmore, Mr. William Woolley, Fitch Ed- 
ward Oliver, M. D., Mr. Robert C. Mackay, Mr. Hamilton A. Hill, 
and others whose names will be found in the list of acknowledg- 
ments. 

Your committee reports a number of accessions to the Society's 
collection of photographic prints, during the year, a large majority 
of which relate to points of interest in the past history of our city, 
and are most acceptable. And here we would state that we are 
especially desirous of securing as many engravings and photographs 
commemorative of buildings and localities in early Boston, as it 
may be possible to bring together in this building, and we respect- 
fully solicit all members of this Society who may be enabled to use 
their influence towards the direction of any such, not already repre- 
sented upon our walls, to exert it in our favor. 

SKETCHES AND COLORED PRINTS. 

Among the objects of interest which have lately been placed in 
our custody your committee takes pleasure in calling attention to a 
valuable and interesting water-color sketch of the present State 
House upoji Beacon Hill, taken in 1805, for Benjamin Gleason, and 
presented to our Society by Mrs. W. W. Wheildcjn, of Concord, 
Massachusetts, It is believed to be the earliest sketch of the 
building now extant. From the Hon. Samuel A. Green, M. D., we 
take pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of two hand-colored 
prints of early date; one a portrait of John Hancock; the other a 
specimen of the curious and well-known copper-plate engraving of 
Paul Revere, portraying the arrival of the British fleet from Hali- 
fax, and the landing of the troops at Long Wharf, Oct. i, 1768. A 
water-color sketch of much interest, representing the old parsonage 



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of Brattle Square Church, formerly standin<:^ on Cf)urt Street, upon 
the present site of the building occupied by the Adams Express 
Company, has been temporarily placed in our care by Mr. Samuel 
H. Russell. Nor must we omit to mention here some most inter- 
esting India ink sketches of localities in the town of Quincy, 
contributed by Miss Eliza Susan Ouincy, of Quincy, which were 
taken by herself in the year 1823. An accompanying photograph 
of another sketch represents Mos-wachusett, or Arrowhead Hill, 
in the town of Quincy. Concerning this locality, historical authorities 
of the period state as follows: "In 1630 the Sachem who gov- 
" erned the country around Boston, had his seat on a bilinear 
" Squantum. It lies in the shape of an Indian arrow-head, which 
" was called in their language, Mos. A hill in the Indian tongue is 
" wachusett, hence the great Sachem's seat was called MoszvacJuisctt, 
" from whence the province received the name of Massachusetts "* 

THE GIFT FROM BOSTON, ENGLAND. 

In the month of June last, a communication was received by 
your committee from His Worship William Bedford, the Mayor of 
Boston, Lincolnshire, England, in behalf of the corporation of that 
borough. It contained advices of the despatch of a box from 
the corporation addressed to this Society, containing certain gifts. 
The package was duly received, and presented by your committee 
to the Society, at the October meeting. Within the box was con- 
tained a most interesting collection of engravings and photographs, 
representative of prominent buildings and localities in English 
Boston, and also several valuable volumes illustrative of the history 
of the borough, and of the county of Lincoln. Of these we specially 
mention a large folio edition of Pishey Thompson's admirable 
work entitled: "The History and Antiquities of Boston" ; bound 
in full russet calf, and bearing the arms of the borough, a personal 
gift from His Worship William Bedford, Mayor. It is illustrated 
by one hundred engravings on steel and copper, and -forms with 
the accompanying volumes, a most valuable addition to the collec- 
tions for our library. Among the other books sent, your commit- 
tee notes with gratification a copy of Smith's translation of that 
portion of Domesday Book which refers to Lincolnshire and Rut- 
landshire, presented by John Morton, Esq., a burgess of the 

* Neal's Histor>' of New England, vol. i. 

Hutchinson's History of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, vol. i. p. 402 



borough of Boston. A special feature of the present consists 
of thirty-five photographs of different carvings in bas-relief as 
represented upon the ancient stalls or choir seats in Boston Church.* 
These are of great antiquity, being attributed to the monks in 
the thirteenth century, while in the records of the corporation under 
date of 1558, they are styled " Our Ladye's quere " and "St. Peter's 
quere." We have caused the views sent, which will well repay a 
close examination, to be suitably framed and placed upon our walls 
in one collection, where they have been viewed with great interest 
by many. 

At the stated meeting for October the presentation of the gifts 
from Boston, England, was acknowledged by a formal resolution 
of thanks, moved by Hamilton J\.. Hill, Esq., and seconded by 
the Reverend Samuel K. Lothrop, D. D., which was unanimously 
adopted. 

The return box authorized by vote of the Society at the above 
meeting to be sent to the Mayor and Corporation of Boston, England, 
was despatched on December 8, of the past year. It contained a 
number of gifts from the Society and individuals connected with 
it, together with the resolutions,! which were duly engrossed on 
parchment, and witnessed by the seal of the Society. 

* The ancient stalls in Boston Church are seventy-seven in number, and are arranged in two rows on 
each side, from the west end of the chancel to the north and south doors. Most probably the brethren 
and sisters of the Guilds of the Blessed Mary and of Sts. Peter and Paul, occupied these stalls during the 
ceremony of high mass and other portions of the Roman Catholic ritual. The stalls on the north side of 
the chancel are now occupied during divine service by the Mayor and Town Council, and those on the south 
side by the members of the choir. — //isi. atid Antiquities of Boston, Lincolnshire. 

The small shelving stool which the seat of the stalls formed when turned up in its proper position, is 
called a ' miserere.' On these the monks and canons of ancient times, with the assistance of their elbows 
on the upper parts of the stalls, half supported themselves during certain portions of their long offices, 
not to be obliged always to stand or kneel. This stool, however, is so contrived, that if the body became 
supine, it naturally fell down, and the person who rested upon it was thrown forward into the middle of 
the choir. — Uliincr's Winchester, vol. ii. p. 36. 

t At the regular meeting of the Bostonian Society, held in the Council Chamber of the Old State House, 
Boston, upon Tuesday, the gth of October, 1SS3, the following resolutions, moved by Hamilton A. Hill, 
Esq., and seconded by the Reverend Samuel K. Lothrop, D.D., were unanimously adopted: — 

IVhereas, During the summer recess, the present of books, engravings and photographs announced at 
the last meeting of the Society, as having been forwarded, and then being on the way from the Mayor 
and Corporation of Boston, England, has been received and deposited on the shelves and walls of the 
Society, and 

IVhereas, It seems fitting to make a more formal acknowledgment of the present than that which was 
made in advance before its receipt — 

Resolved, That the hearty thanks of the Bostonian Society be and they hereby are tendered to His 
Worship the Mayor and the Honorable Corporation of Boston, Lincolnshire, for the very valuable and 
acceptable gift of books and pictures illustrating the history and architecture of their ancient borough 
with which they have favored the Society. 

Resolved, That the thanks of the Society be cordially tendered to His Worship, William Bedford, the 
Mayor of Boston, for the valuable presents sent by him personally to the Society ; also to John Morton, 



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RESEARCHES AT THE STATE HOUSE. 

Early in the present year an act was passed by the General 
Court of Massachusetts, authorizing the Governor and Council to 
give to the City of Boston, to be placed in the Old State House, 
any antique furniture belonging to the Commonwealth formerly 
used in that building. Under the provisions of this act, your 
committee, duly authorized by the proper authorities of the city, has 
made frequent searches in various parts of the present State House 
for such articles as are comprehended within the act, and these in- 
vestigations have been well repaid, resulting in the acquisition 
among other things, of the old table of the Executive Council be- 
fore the Revolution, formerly in this building, and a sufficient 
number of the old Senate mahogany arm-chairs to allow both the 
Council Chamber and Representatives' Hall to be duly furnished. 

Upon the twenty-first of December, your committee received 
from His Excellency the Governor, an official attestation from the 
archives of the Executive Department, witnessed by the seal of 
the Commonwealth, as to the verity of the old Council table 
sent by the Governor and Council to be placed in this building. 
This document, together with the table, we have caused to be 
deposited in the Council Cliamber. 



Esq., a burgess of the borough, for a copy of Smith's translatiou of that portion of Domesday Book 
which relates to Lincolnshire and Rutlandshire, presented by him. 

Resolved, That the Directors of the Society are hereby authorized and requested to preparejand send a 
box to the Mayor and Corporation of Boston, containing such books and photographs as will convey suit- 
able information to them in relation to this city. 

Boston, Massachusetts, October gth, A.D., 18S3. 

A true copy of the record. 

I L. s. } Witness the Seal of the Bostonian Society. 

^ ^ SAMUEL M. QUINCY, C/^r/t. 

The box despatched to the Mayor and Corporation, per ss. Catalonia, upon Saturday, Dec. 8, 1S83, con- 
tained the following volumes and photographs: Twenty-ninth annual report of the Boston Board of 
Trade ; Two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Planting of the First Church in Boston ; Memoir of 
Abbott Lawrence; History of the Bunker Hill Monument Association: Sentry or Beacon Hill ; the 
Monument of 1635 and 1790; Historical Catalogue of the Old South Church; Old State House Memo- 
rial ; Landmarks of Boston; Hand-book of Boston; Eight volumes of tlie Reports of the Boston Record 
Commissioners; Leaflet containing the inscriptions on the bronze tablets recently placed on the older 
burial-grounds of Boston; Figures of the past, from the leaves of old journals; Bibliography of Charles- 
town, Massachusetts; Over the Ocean; Abroad Again; Records of the First Church in Charlestown, 
Massachusetts, 1632-1789; Manual for the use of the General Court of Massachusetts, 1SS3 ; unmounted 
photographic views as follows : Large view of the Old State House ; Quincy Market ; City Hall ; 
Franklin Statue ; Custom House; Faneuil Hall; Hancock House; Old Elm on Boston Common ; Sol- 
diers' and Sailors' Monument; Equestrian Statue of Washington ; Bunker Hill Monument; Ether 
Monument; Bridge in Public Garden; Trinity Church; City Hospital; Post Office; The Old South 
Meeting-House; Present edifice of the Old South Church ; two views of the Public Garden; the Museum 
of Fine Arts; Commonwealth Avenue; Lincoln Monument in Park Square. 



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An old broadside containing the warrant for the last Town Meet- 
ing held in Boston, called in Faneuil Hall, for Monday, March 4, 
1822, has been presented to the Society by Mr. Moses Grant Daniell, 
and is of much historical importance. It is given over the signature 
of Thomas Clark, Town Clerk, and contains the entire text of the 
City Charter granted by the General Court, entitled : "An Act to es- 
tablish the City of Boston," which was to be submitted to the citi- 
zens, for adoption. In referring to this interesting paper we would 
call attention to the fact that accessions of this class constitute a most 
valuable element in our collections, and that there doubtless yet re- 
main in our midst many articles of this nature, closely connected 
with the past of this community, which have been laid away from 
time to time among old papers. We trust that others, reading of 
this acquisition, may be stimulated to search among their files for 
like interesting souvenirs, which, if placed in our possession, we 
should appreciate most highly, and ensure careful guardianship. 

For much assistance furnished to your committee while pursu- 
ing its quest at the State House, it is indebted to the courtesy of 
the late Executive, Ex-Governor I^utler, to Capt. Oreb F. Mitchell, 
Sergeant-at-arms, and Mr. Joseph C. Tucker, the Superintendent of 
Public Buildings. 

THE ISAAC ROYALL CHANDKLIER. 

In the pursuance of the above researches your committee was 
advised by Mr. W. F. Durfee, a member of the General Court of 
1861, that when in that year he was serving upon a committee for 
the collection of the instruments used for the survey of the State, 
he discovered in one of the vaults of the present State House, 
an ancient chandelier, taken in pieces and packed in a box. The 
central portion consisted of a brass sphere, bearing around it the 
following inscription : " A Gift to the Great and General Court 
of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, from Isaac Royall, of 
Charlestown, 1748." Within the box lay the twisted branches or 
arms of glass, which fitted into the central piece and held the 
brass lamps. The chandelier was accompanied with a rod and 
chain of antique pattern, evidently intended to connect it with the 
ceiling. As may be imagined, the record of this most interesting 
relic, well known from the attestation of early documents, to have 
hung in the Representatives' Hall of this building in the Provincial 
day, stimulated a most persevering search, in the hope that, as it 
had been seen carefully preserved at the State House at so com- 



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paratively recent a date, it might be eventually recovered and 
replaced in the ancient hall where it hung for over ninety years. 
Your committee regrets, however, to be obliged to state that despite 
every effort, its investigations have as yet led to no further result 
than the discovery of the old rod and chain mentioned above, which 
it has added to the collections of the Society for preservation. 
Although a thorough search has been had in all accessible portions 
of the State House, we are yet in hopes that some further trace 
may be found of this most interesting and curious relic of the 
past, especially as one of the present watchmen there employed 
testifies that he saw it lying in the box as described by Mr. Durfee, 
as late as the year 1875. 

OBJECTS OF HISTORICAL VALUE. 

Among other accessions which are recorded, is the antique hall 
clock of the Rev. Mather Byles, the noted wit and loyalist of the 
Revolutionary period, and first pastor of the Hollis Street Church, 
in Boston.* It comes from our fellow member, Mr. Thomas O. 
H. P. Burnham, the well-known antiquary, and is an object 
of great curiosity to many visitors to the Council Chamber. It 
was made by Gawen Brown,t the maker of the Old South clock, in 
his shop on State Street, in 1750, then occupying the site of the 
present Merchants' Bank building, and is still in excellent running 
order. We have also received during the past month, from Mr. 
Thomas Sherman, of Chelsea, the gift of an old engrossed parch- 
ment, dated at Boston, April 4, 1693, being a true copy, duly 
attested under the signature of Isaac Addington, Register of 
Probate, of the " last Will and Testament of George Worthilake, 



* The Rev. Mather Byles, founder of Hollis Street Church, was ordained in 1732, and held that 
pastorate until 1777 He was a man of talent, an eloquent speaker, and a ready wit. His residence was 
on Common (ihe present Tremont) Street, corner of Hollis Street. The late Delano A. Goddard says of 
him in Vol m. Chap. iii. of the Memorial History of Boston : " Alone of the Congregational clergy, he 
stood against the Revolution. He tried, with undoubted sincerity to avoid politics in the pulpit, but his 
opinions were too notorious, and his sharp tongue too free, to make his position long an agreeable one to 
his people or to himself. He left his congregation in 1776, and the following year was denounced in town 
meeting, and tried by a special court for remainnig in Boston during the siege, and praying for the King. 
He was sentenced to be conveyed on board a guard ship and sent to England, but the sentence was not en- 
forced. The last twelve years of his life were spent in retirement, and the favor of the community was 
never restored to him.'' 

t Gawen Brown, the maker of the Old South clock, came to Boston from England. He was a prosper- 
ous artisan, and at his death left a handsome estate. He married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Rev. 
Mather Byles, and his grand-daughter, Mrs. Rebecca V. Thompson, is yet living in this city. This lady 
possesses a statement in the handwriting of her grandfather, concerning the Old South clock, which he 
considered as his masterpiece. It is dated in 1756, and says: " My time-piece goes so well that it went 
twenty-six weeks, and varied only, according to the most accurate observation, about two minutes of time." 

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" of the island commonly called and known by the name of Pem- 
" berton's Island, within the Township of Boston, in the Massa- 
" thusetts Colony in New England." This curious document 
is in excellent preservation, and will, we doubt not, be regarded 
with much interest by our members. 

SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF THIS BUILDING. 

In the month of September last, your committee, to meet the 
convenience of the many visitors to this building who are com- 
paratively unacquainted with its history, prepared a brief histori- 
cal sketch of matters incidental to the period in connection with 
which it became famous, contained in an i8mo. leaflet of twelve 
pages. Of this it caused to be printed an edition of five hundred 
copies. These were placed by your committee in the charge of 
the custodians, upon the 8th of October last, to be furnished at a 
nominal figure, covering the cost of printing, to those who might 
desire to obtain such information as it contained. The book 
appears to answer a desirable purpose. Within the period em- 
braced between Oct. 8th and January i, of the present year, the 
custodians report the number of copies sold as one hundred and 
twenty-five. Your committee views the work done by this little 
publication, in the dissemination throughout the community through 
the medium of purchasers from all portions of the country, of a 
knowledge of the building, and the aims of our Society, as by no 
means unimportant. 

EARLY MAPS OF BOSTON AND VICINITY. 

Since the last Annual Meeting the upper portion of this build- 
ing has been duly finished by the city of Boston, and now awaits 
the reception of a portion of the Society's collections. Your 
committee contemplates the establishment here of as complete a 
set of maps and plans of this city, showing the successive periods 
of its growth, as it may be possible to secure. It has already been 
able to make some progress in this direction, and soon trusts to 
place that portion of accessions which it has acquired in position. 
Some of the most valuable maps of this community are to be found 
in the Boston Directories and guide-books of early date, and we 
would solicit such of our fellow-members as may chance to find 
among their books any of the above, containing these maps, es- 
pecially at a period ante-dating the year 1835, to bear in mind that 
such would be most acceptable, especially should they prove of 



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dates which we have not already obtained. Ample space exists 
in the upper story for the location of the Society's library, to the 
collections for which your committee reports some accessions, but 
it respectfully calls attention to the fact that there is room for large 
additions to this department. 

PLATES FROM BOWEN's " PICTURE OF BOSTON." 

Your committee, among the purchases which it has made during 
the past year for account of the Society, specially refers to a set of 
valuable copper-plates, which appeared in the third edition of Bow- 
en's well known volume, published Jan. 2, 1838, entitled: "A Pic- 
ture of Boston." These plates represent most of the churches and 
public buildings of this city standing at that time, and bear signs 
of careful execution. They are very little worn, the outlines 
being sharp and clear. Your committee, realizing that it had 
secured a valuable acquisition to the Society's collections, reported 
its purchase to that body at the stated meeting for November, ac- 
companying its action with proof-sheets from the plates for the in- 
spection of its fellow-members. The action of your committee 
was duly approved by the Society, which adopted the following 
resolution : 

Ordered^ " That the Committee on the Rooms be authorized to 
" issue an edition of the plates from Bowen's Picture of Bostoti, 
" with suitable letter-press, and that a copy be given to each mem- 
" ber for the year 1884." Your committee informs the Society 
that it has complied with the above instructions, and that the 
work is now in press, while the edition will probably be ready for 
delivery before the next monthly meeting. 

ACCESSIONS TO THE SOCIETY'S COLLECTIONS. 

Since the last Annual Meeting your committee reports the 
number of accessions to the Society's collections in these halls as 
two hundred and forty-six, and the number of loans as fifty-seven, 
the whole aggregating a total of three hundred and three. This 
does not include the accessions to the collections for the library, 
which foot up fifty-seven volumes and one hundred and thirty-three 
pamphlets. The register for the inscription of the names of visit- 
ors to the rooms shows the total number of autographs there record- 
ed during the period between January i, 1883, and January i, 1884, 
to be five thousand, three hundred and forty-two, and the 
aggregate number recorded since the opening of the register. 



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August 28, 1882, to be nine thousand two hundred and forty- 
seven, of which three thousand two hundred and sixty-nine 
are residents of Boston. 

Among the recent accessions your committee calls the attention 
of the Society to a very interesting and curious copy, executed in 
London in 1833, of an original Dutch map, engraved at Amster- 
dam, in 1659. It gives a view of the territory constituting the 
ancient Dutch province of New Netherland, (the present site of 
the states of New York, New Jersey and Delaware), with that of 
New England and part of New France, or Virginia, as then known to 
the Dutch. As it is a matter of record that the early Dutch navi- 
gators who visited these shores, according to the historian Van 
der Donck* claimed the whole country along the coast, and set up 
the escutcheon of the States-General of Holland on Cape Cod, or, 
as they called it, Staatcn Hocck, it will readily be realized that this 
curiously illustrated map, which is the gift of our fellow member, 
Hon. Jonathan Preston, forms an accession of material value. 

As we look back on the record of the past year we find that 
much has been effected in the way of progress, but that much yet 
remains to be achieved. The walls of these historic halls 
are, it is true, well covered with pictures, but it should be recol- 
lected that a proportion of these have been contributed as loans 
merely, and that at any time, we are likely to be called upon to de- 
liver such as may be desired by their owners. In view of this, 
your committee respectfully suggests to the members of the So- 
ciety that there is plenty of room for any additional prints or paint- 
ings which any one may feel inclined to present us, and that any 
such accessions will be most cordially welcomed. 

Your committee is especially desirous that the Society should 
possess some portraits in oil of those illustrious magistrates, who 
in the early days of the Town and Province, officiated in the 
Council Chamber, and we recommend for the consideration of 



* The Province of New Netherland is situate on the North side of America, in the latitude of thirty- 
eight and one-half degrees, or thereabouts. It is bounded on the North-east by New England ; on the 
South-west by English Virginia. The coast extends mostly South-west and North-east, and is sandy 
alongside the Ocean. The North-west region is still partly unexplored. The South Bay and South River, 
(the present Delaware), called by many the second great river of New Netherland, lies in the latitude of 
38° 15'. It has two heights or capes, the Northern, called Cape May, the Southern, Cape Cornelis, and 
the Bay itself is called now Port Mey, now Godyn Bay. In the beginning, before any mention was made 
of the English, after our people had first discovered and explored the most northerly part of New Nether- 
land, they erected an Escutcheon on Cape Cod, and took possession. The Boundaries as we understand 
extend from thence to Cape Hinlopen. — Bcschryvinge van Nieiiiu Ncderlandt. Adricrn I'an dcr Donck, 
Amsterdam: 1649. 



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the Society the subject of ascertaining what action should be taken 
in this direction. We have made some inquiry, and have dis- 
covered that good copies by a competent artist could probably be 
secured at an average price of about one hundred dollars a picture, 
and should any of our members see fit to present to our Society 
one or more such portraits, we know of no gift that would be 
more acceptable or appropriate. 

It has been thought best by your committee to annex to this, 
its First Annual Report, a descriptive list of all the articles which 
have been placed in the Society's possession by gift or loan, since 
it occupied these halls. An exception, however, has been made 
in the case of the collections for the library, to which only the ac- 
cessions for the past year are given. 

All of which is respectfully submitted. 



Mr. John Lathrop then presented the report of the Committee 
to nominate Officers for the ensuing year, as follows : — 

For Directors: 

CURTIS GUILD, 
WILLIAM S. APPLETON, 
THOMAS MINNS, 
JOHN T. HASSAM, 
SAMUEL H. RUSSELL, 
WILLIAM H. WHITMORE, 
HAMILTON A. HILL, 
WILLIAM H. BALDWIN. 
THOMAS C. AMORY. 

For Clerk and Treasurer: 
JAMES M. HUBBARD. 

A ballot was then taken and the foregoing list of candidates 
declared to be duly elected Officers of the Society for the ensuing 
year, and the Clerk duly sworn. 

The following vote, offered bv Mr. Samuel H. Russell, was 
unanimously passed : — 



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Votcd^ That the thanks of the Rostonian Society be presented to 
General Samuel M. Quincy, who to-day retires from the offices of 
Clerk and Treasurer, for his valuable services which have been 
largely instrumental in bringing it to its present state of prosperity 
and usefulness, and entitle him to the warmest gratitude of its 
officers and members. 

Mr. Hamilton A. Hill asked the attention of the members 
to the value of the heliotype process for perpetuating and 
multiplying copies of old and rare papers, and broadsides such as 
almost every one has in his possession ; documents of a personal 
character, or of family interest, or of an historical character, may 
be rescued from the possibility of loss, by this simple and exact 
method of reproduction. Mr. Hill presented to the Society, as illus- 
trations of his remarks, three heliotype documents, as follows : First, 
a proclamation issued by Louis Philippe, July 29, 1830, ad- 
dressed to the citizens of Paris, on his arrival among them to 
lead the revolution of July. This waif was picked up in the streets 
of Paris, and has been preserved, by a gentleman still living in 
Boston. Second, a letter from the Church at Plymouth, recom- 
mending John and Mary Winslow, (Mary Chilton of the May- 
flozucr), and their children, to the fellowship of the Third Church, 
now the Old South Church of Boston. The letter is dated June 26, 
1671, and the original is in the Prince Library, belonging to the Old 
South Church. Third, the result of an ecclesiastical council, called 
to settle the questions at issue between the First and Third Churches, 
dated May 28, 1674, and signed by Samuel Whiting, John p:iiot, 
Peter Hobart, John Higginson, Samuel Phillips, Seaborne Cot- 
ton, and others. 

Adjourned. 

JAMES M. HUBBARD, Clerk. 



ACCESSIONS TO THE LIBRARY COLLECTIONS.— 1883. 





Volumes. 


Pamph-J 

LETS. 


Hon. Thomas C. Amory 




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William Bedford, Mayor of Boston, England 


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Boston Park Commissioners ..... 


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Boston Record Commissioners, .... 


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Bostonian Society, — purchased by Committee on the 
Rooms, ........ 


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Charles Rollin Brainard ..... 

Hon. Francis Brinley, of Newport, R. I. . 

James A. Dupee ....... 

James Lane Gorham, {^\t N. E. Palladium, 1804) 

Hon. Samuel A. Green, M.D. .... 

John T. Hassam ...... 

Hamilton A. Hill 

Samuel Dean Horton ..... 

E. J. Howard, Secretary Boston Board of Trade, 

James F. Hunnewell ..... 

Long Island Historical Society 

George W. Maunder ..... 

Thomas Minns ....... 

John Morton, Boston, England 

New England Historic, Genealogical Society . 

Grenville H. Norcross ..... 

Francis Winthrop Palfrey ..... 

Hon. James L. Quigley .... 

General Samuel M. Quincy .... 

Daniel Rollins ...... 

c 1 ij r. 11 J file Bo.:ton Gazette 1805 

Samuel H. Russell j ^^^ Columbian Centinel 1809 

Joseph Simes, South Plymouth, Massachusetts . 

William H. Whitmore 

Hon. Marshall P. Wilder 



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ACCESSIONS TO THE SOCIETY'S COLLECTIONS. 



James Alexander. 

Lithographic view, by Mayer, entitled: " Steamship Brittania cut out of ice 
in Boston Harbor, Feb. 3, 1844." 

George II. Allan. 

A fragment of masonry taken from tlie ancient tower of St. Botolph's Church, 
Boston, Lincolnshire, England. 

Nathan Appletun. 

A photographic portrait of the late Nathan Appleton, born in New Ipswich, 
N. H., Oct, 6, 1779: died at Boston, July 14, 1861. after the painting by G. P. 
A. Healy. 

A. C. Baldwin. 

Painting in oil of Boston, from Dorchester, by Seeman. 

Map of Milton and Dorchester. 

Copper-plate engraving entitled : " Sacred to Patriotism." dedicated to Con- 
gress, Charles Smith, sc. 

Sylvester B.\xter. 

Photographic view of the late Beacon Hill Reservoir, erected 1S47, removed 
in 18S3. 

His WohsiiipWilll\m Bedford, Mayor of Boston, Lincolnshire, England. 
A photographic portrait of William Bedford, Esq., Mayor of Boston, Eng- 
land, 1S83, in regalia, as official head of the Corporation of the Borough. 

City of Boston. 

Large photographic view of the Old .State House, as restored in 1881. 

Boston Antiql'arian Club. 

View of Toy's Building, formerly standing on Washington Street, upon the 
site of the present Rogers' Building. 

Heliotype reproduction of FranqncUn s Carte de la ville, bayc ct environs 
dc Bast OH, 1693. 

Unfinished plan of Boston, found among the papers of A. Bowen, collected in 
1827-28. 

Map of " The Town of Boston in New-England," no date given. 

Two electrotype views upon one sheet, showing the Old State House in 1770 
and in 1876. 

Plan of Boston, 1722. A. Bowet!, sc. 

Reproduction, made in 1878, of a plan of Boston, dated 1800. 

Reproduction, made in 1869, of "A Plan of Boston in New-England," 
dated 1729, dedicated to Governor Burnet. Thomas Johnson, sc. 



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Steel-plate portrait of Judge Samuel Sewall. after an original painting. F. 
T. Sfiiart, $c. 

Electrotype reproduction of an old print, entitled: " A Prospect of the 
Colledges in Cambridge, in New England." 

BosTONiAN Society. Purchased by the Committee on the Rooms. 

Thirty-two copper-plate views of various churches and public buildings in 
Boston, A. Bo-ven, sc, which appeared in the third edition of the volume 
entitled : " A Picture of Boston," published January 2, 1S38. 

Steel-plate view of Boston from Boston Bay, C. l^Iottram, sc, 1857, after 
the painting by J. W. Hill. 

Plans and Maps of Boston for the years 1814, 1832, 1833, 1835, 1836, 
1837, I83S, 1844, 1846, 1848, 1849, 1S51: 1852, 1853, 1855, 1858, 1859; Plan 
of Boston, with parts of the adjacent towns, published by the Boston 
Bewick Company, 1835. 

Two electrotype reproductions : one being of a copper-plate portrait of Abel 
Bowen ; the other of a frontispiece used by that author in the volume 
entitled : " A Picture of Boston." 

Map of Boston from the Guide Book, 1864; Map of the "Environs of 
Boston," 184S ; Map of Boston from Boston Almanac, 1849; Map of New 
England, 1850, showing telegraphic and railroad communications ; Plan, 
showing the proposed improvement of the Back Bay, 1879. 

Copper-plate portrait of the Rev. Mather Byles, pastor of Hollis Street 
Church, 1732-1777 5. Ham's, sc. 

Copper-plate portrait of "The Hon"'* Samuel Adams, Esq'- first Delegate to 
Congress from Massachusetts." J^. Norman, sc. 

Copper-plate engraving entitled: View of Bunker's \Y\\\, {Genilemaii's Afag- 
azine, Feb., 1790.) 

Lithographic portrait of General Warren, bj- Pendleton, after the painting by 
Alexander. 

Electrotype view of the Coliseum, erected for the Peace Jubilee in Boston, in 
1869. 

Steel-plate engraving of Faneuil Hall. John G. AIcRae, sc. 

A fac-simile of the original Speaker's Desk, formerly in the Representatives' 
Hall of the Old State House. 

A lithographic view by Fabrontns, after the painting by Ames, entitled : 
" Webster at Marshfield." 

A certificate of membership in the Boston Sea Fencibles, 1819, engraved on 
copper, showing in back-ground a view of Boston Light as it appeared at that 
date. Annin it French, sc. 

Permit of safe passage granted the ship O'Cai'n, of Boston, dated January 11, 
1803. Issued by Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, and coun- 
tersigned by James Madison, Secretary' of State, and showing in foreground a 
copper-plate view of Boston Light as it appeared at that time. 

Fifteen cuts (wood and copper), being illustrations used by Abel Bowen, in his 
volume entitled : " A Picture of Boston." 

Copper-plate engraving commemorative of the services of Tho. S. Webb, 
one of the founders of the Handel and Haydn Society, Annin & Smith, sc. 

A metal Sun-dial, bearing date 1762. 

Diagram illustrative of the figures represented in the oil painting by Wight, 
entitled : " Laying the Corner Stone of the Reservoir in Derne Street, 1847." 

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Steel-plate portrait of Lafayette; a proof by Lcroux from the painting in oil, 
by Ary Schaeffer, 1S22. 

His Worship the Mayor and the Honorable Corporation of Boston, 
Lincolnshire, England. 

Thirty-five photographic representations of bas relief carvings upon the an- 
cient stalls, or choir seats of Boston Church, attributed to the monks in the thir- 
teenth century; specified as follows : 

The early English Rose; a couchant Buck ; a double-headed Eagle; an Eagle 
with its head turned; the Grifiin; Clowns playing with Kittens; a foliated de- 
sign; a Bear Bait; Eagles picking their claws: Head with curled beard; a man 
devoured by wolves; a Lion and Dragon fighting; a Man attacking a Lion ; 
Killing the Grifiin; Bust of a Qiieen ; The Schoolmaster; A Man and Woman 
fighting; a Mermaid piping to a boat's crew; a Fox running away with the 
Geese; a Monster with cloven feet and the head of a man; the Portcullis of the 
Castle; a tiltim;- helm in profile; Grotesque Head ; a Winged Dragon ; a Dra- 
gon and Grifiin in amiable converse; Killing the Unicorn ; a foliated design ; 
a Wolf as priest, Reynard peeping in; Monkey with bottle; a Knight fully 
armed, charging a Wyvern with his lance; two Swans, the heads forminga ducal 
coronet; a feat of Horsemanship — bending behind to pick up the horse shoe; 
the Pillar of Flagellation ; a Hunt with Bow and Arrow ; a Burlesque upon organ 
playing. 

Unmounted photographs specified as follows, relating to Boston, England : 
View of Boston Church from the West; the Church from the Cattle Market; 
general view showing Lincoln and Lindsay Bank, White Hart Hotel, and build- 
ing of the Liberal Club; the Pulpit in Boston Church, from which Rev. John 
Cotton preached; the Memorial in Boston Church to the late Professor Coning- 
ton ; the Church, and Herbert Ingram Monument; Inscription upon the Me- 
morial Brass in Boston Church, commemorative of the Rev. John Cotton; 
South Porch and Cotton Chapel of Boston Church; the Sessions House; 
View of old Wind, Corn and Flour Mills; the Ingelow House; the Church 
House; the Cottage Hospital; Old Flemish House after its restoration; Old 
Flemish House before its restoration; the Baptist Chapel; another view of the 
Cottage Hospital ; Burton Hall ; the Grammar School ; View of the site of the 
new Dock; View of Skirbeck Church, Lincolnshire. 

Steel and copper-plate prints specified as follows : 

Steel-plate engraving, entitled: "Boston, Lincolnshire," choice proof, C. 
H. yeems, sc. 

Steel-plate engraving entitled : "Boston, Lincolnshire," published by 
J. Morton. 

Copper-plate engraving, entitled : "Guildhall, Boston," 7?. Pollard, sc, 1S19. 

Copper-plate engraving entitled : ' ' North-east view of Tattershall Castle, Lin- 
colnshire," B. Hoivlctt, sc. iSoo. 

Copper-plate view of Tattershall Castle from another point, B. Hoiulett, sc. 
1799. 

Boston Safe Deposit Company. 

Plan of the Burnt District, as it appeared after the great fire of Nov. 9-10, 
1872. 

F. E. Bryant. 

The swing Sign of the old Pembroke Inn, formerly standing upon the 
Plymouth turnpike, upon the outskirts of the township of Pembroke. 



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Dudley R. Child. 

Tvvo copper-plate engravings containing a series of copper-plate views 
illustrative of various localities and public buildings. 

Jekemiah Colburn. 

Lithographic view by Pendleton., entitled : Entrance to Cornhill from Wash- 
ington Street, 1S27. 

Two views of State Street, eng. by J. Mayer. 

A. O. Crane. 

Two heliotjpe reproductions of Maps, entitled respectively: "A New and 
Accurate Plan of the Town of Boston in New-England, 1774, ' and " General 
Washington's Revolutionary War Map, after a survey ordered by him, showing 
the position of his army in defence of Boston, 1776." 

George K. Daniell, of Wellesley Hills. 

Portrait in oil of Hannah Adams, the authoress; born 1755; died 1S31- 

Henry W. Daniell. 

A photographic view after the engraving entitled : " View of Boston in 
1S48." 

Moses Grant Daniell. 

Broadside, containing the printed call for the last Town Meeting held in 
Boston, convened in Faneuil Hall, on Monday March 4, 1822, to act upon the 
adoption of a City Charter. 

Dr. John H. Dix. 

Photographic view of the raising of the Hotel Pelham, August, 1869. 

John Dodge, of Charlestown. 

Cannon-ball fired by the British against Washington's intrenchments on 
Dorchester Heights, in 1775. 

Nancy M. Downer. 

A photographic view of the house of Major Thomas Melvill, taken in 1832, 
showing a portion of Green Street as it appeared at that time. 

Printed sketch of the life of Major Melvill, as published in Columbian 
Centinel, Oct. 30, 1S32. 

James A. Dupee. 

Copper-plate portrait of John Qiiincy Adams, published in 1826. A. B. Du- 
rand, sc, after the painting by Sully. 

Charles E. French. 

The iron Fire-back of the chimney-piece of the Blue Room in the old Hancock 
house, cast in 1737, also the lightning-rod from that building, which was put 
up by Benjamin Franklin. 

Ward Brooks Frothingham. 

An electrotype reproduction of an imaginative sketch, entitled: "A View 
of the First Meeting-House in Boston, 1632." 

Hon. Samuel A. Green, M.D. 

A heliotype portrait of Hon. Samuel A. Green, M.D., Mayor of Boston, 1882. 

W. W. Greenough. 

Heliotype reproduction of J^ranyueli'/i's "Carie de la vt'lle, baye et environs de 
Bastou" 1693. 



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Curtis Guild. 

Twelve heliotjpe engravings of old Boston buildings, after sketches made 
by George R. Tolman. 

Panoramic view of the ruins after the great fire in Boston, (Nov. 9-10, 1872), 
from a point opposite Trinity Church, in Summer Street. 

David Green IIaskins, jun., of Cambridge. 

Heliotype reproduction of a sketch entitled: " Residence of Ralph Inman, 
Cambridge, Mass." 

T. T. Hauffer. 

Bill of Lading of the sloop Greyhound, from Boston to Newberne, N. C, un- 
der date of Jan. 20, 1709. 
The Boston Herald. 

Fragment of Masonry from the old Roman wall of London. 

Charles R. Hildebourn, of Philadelphia, Penn. 

Etching of Ralph Inman, the loyalist of Cambridge during the Revolutionary 
period. 

Hamilton A. Hill. 

A copper-plate portrait of " Thomas Hollis, Esq., a liberal benefactor of 
Harvard College in New England, died 1731." 

A copper-plate portrait of Benjamin Franklin, engraved by B. Tanner, after 
the oil painting by Cochin in 1777. 

Heliotype reproductions as follows : 

A proclamation issued by Louis Phillipe, July 29, 1S30, addressed to the citi- 
zens of Paris, upon his arrival among them to lead the revolution of July. 

A letter from the Church at Plymouth, dated June 26, 1671, recommending 
John and Mary Winslow, (Mary Chilton of the Mayflovjer). and their children, 
to the fellowship of the Third Church, now the Old South Church of Boston. 

The result of an ecclesiastical council, called to settle the questions at issue 
between the First and Third Churches, dated May 28, 1674. 

Samuel Dean Horton. 

Copper-plate portrait of Washington, Sartain^ sc. 
Autograph letter of Paul Revere. 

W. P. LUNT. 

Lamb's Reproduction of Pelham's Military Map, entitled: "A Plan of Bos- 
ton in New-England, with its Environs," 1775-76. 

Robert C. ^NIackay. 

A copper-plate engraving entitled: "A View of the Year 1765, Boston: 
engraved, printed and sold by Paul Revere." 

A reproduction and fac-simile of the Boston Gazette and Country journal, 
of March 12, 1770, giving a detailed account of the Boston Massacre. 

George W. M.\uxder, of Charlestown. 

Electrotype reproduction of a cut entitled: "South view of the old F'eather 
Store in Dock Square," erected 16S0, razed i860. 

F. W. G. May. 

Lithographic view, by Bn/ford, of the residence of the late Jeffrey Richard- 
son, formerly standing at the corner of Pearl and High Streets in Boston. 



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Rev. Joseph May, of Leicester. 

Lithographic portrait bj Pendleton, of the Rev. John P. Kirkland. D.D., 
LL.D., after the painting in oil by Gilbert Stuart. 

Mrs. Elizabeth L. Means. 

Two Holland Tiles taken from the old mansion formerly occupied bv 
John Majo and Cotton Mather, erected in 1656; also the fan-light of the front 
door of that building, with one of the pilasters which supported the stoop. 

Thomas Minns. 

Photographic view of the present edifice of the "First Church of Christ 
in Boston." 

Captain Oreb F. Mitchell, Sergeant-at-arms of the Commonwealth. 

Two brass oil lamps of Doric pattern ; two pewter ditto. 

Three wooden inkstands ; one slate inkstand. 

Rod and Chain of the Isaac Rojall chandelier, which formerly hung in the 
Representatives' Hall of the Old State House. 

An old Book Case, inscribed: "The Gift of Isaac Rojall, Esq'' of Charles- 
town.'' 

Grenville H. Norcross. 

Photographic views, as follows : 

Mayor and Boai-d of Aldermen, 1862 and 1867; Committee on Accounts, 1S67 ; 
raising eight hundred feet Cochituate water pipe on Tremont Street, 1S67 ; Board 
of Trade and Western Visitors, 1S65. 

Heliotype portrait of Samuel A. Green, M.D., Mayor of Boston, 1882. 

Photographic portrait of the late Hon. Otis Norcross, Mayor of Boston, 1S67. 

Fitch Edward Oliver, M.D. 

A heliotype reproduction of a portrait by " N. Emmons, Dec, 172S," entitled : 
" Mr. Andrew Oliver, Nat. March 29, 1706." 

Miss Abby L. Pierce, of Brookline. 

A photographic portrait of the late Rey. John Pierce, D.D., born in Dorches- 
ter, July 14, 1773; died August 24, 1S49. 

Edward Ellerton Pratt. 

Heliotype portrait of the late Rufus Choate, born in 1799 ; died 1859, ^fter 
the engraying in Browfi's Life of Choate. 

Rebecca DeCarteret Pratt, of Chelsea. 

Copper-plate view of the Hancock House, after a drawing by J. Davis. T, 
Diman, sc. 

A stone bullet-mold of Reyolutionary period, bearing the initials E. P., \yith 
date, 1783. 

Hon. Jonathan Preston, 

A correct copy, executed by T/iomas Starling; in London, in 1833, of an 
original Dutch Map, engraved in Amsterdam, in 1659, entitled " Novi Belgii 
novaeque Angliae nee non partis Virginiac tabula, vinltis in locis cmendata 
a Nicolao Joannis Vissc/iero.'' 

William G. Preston. 

Photographic views taken from the tovver of the Somerset Street (First 
Baptist) Church, razed in 1882; including the Church edifice (exterior and inte- 
rior), and the new building erected on that site. 



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Miss Eliza Susan Qltinxy, of Qiiincy. 

A Sketch in india ink, bv herself, taken in 1823, entitled : "A view of the 
" village of Qiiincy, and the Congregational Meeting-house, built in 1732, and 
" taken down in 1S2S; and of the monument to Josiah Qiiincj, jr., erected by 
" his son in 1S04." Also a sketch in india ink, taken at the same time, entitled : 
"A view of the house of President John Adams, with a view of Dorchester 
" Heights and the city of Boston, and in the middle distance Arrow-head Hill 
" and the planting-ground of the Sachem, marked by the house of Josiah 
" Qiiincy, erected upon it in 1770." 

Photograph of a sketch made by Miss Qiiincy, in 1S23, of Mos-wachusett or 
Arrow Head Hill, in the town of Qiiincy. 

A photographic portrait of Edward Bromfield, senior, taken from the paint- 
ing in oil, attributed to Smibcrr. 

Two copper-plate engravings of Battles of Qiiebec and Bunker Hill, with 
key to each, published in London, in 179S. 

Original copper-plate print, entitled: "The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in 
King-street, Boston, March 5, 1770, by a party of the 29th Regt". Engraved, 
printed and sold by Paul Revere. 

Five colored lithographs of Beacon Hill and vicinity, from drawings by 
/. /v*. Siiiif/i, in iSii. 

Southack's Reduction of Bonner's Map of Boston, 1733. 

Plan of Boston, with intrenchments of His Majesty's forces in 1775, by Lieut. 
Page, of His Majesty's Corps of Engineers, engraved and printed for William 
Fadden, Charing Cross, Oct. 1, 1777. 

General Gage's Fortifications on Boston Neck, in 1775, reproduced from 
Pennsylvania Magazine. 

Hon. Josiah Quincy, of Qiiincy. 

Reproduction of " Price's Southeast View of ye Great Town of Boston, in 
New England, 1743." 

Lithographic view, by Pendleton, of projected improvements in the South 
Cove, after the drawing by P. P. F. DeGrand, in 1S35. 

Daguerreotype view of the laying the corner-stone of the Derne street Reser- 
voir, Nov, 22, 1847, "^^'ith Mayor Qiiincy in the foreground. 

Reproduction of Burgess's Map of Boston, 1729. 

Josiah Quincv, jun. 

Representation of great elm on Boston Common, on veneer from the same. 
General Samuel M. Quincy. 

A heliotype reproduction of the oil painting by Salmon, entitled: "Old 
State House in flames, 1832." 

Samuel H. Russell. 

Copper-plate portrait of Benjamin Franklin, by Tanner, after the painting 
by CoeJiin, in 1777. 

D. W. S.VLISIUJRY. 

Photographic view of the second edifice of the " First Church of Christ 
in Boston," formerly standing on the site of the present Rogers' Building. 

Photographic view of Brattle Square Church, erected 1772, razed 1S71. 
Thomas Sherim.\x, of Chelsea. 

An engrossed parchment, dated at Boston, April 4, 1693, being an attested 



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copy before the Hon. Isaac Addington, Register of Probate, of the " last Will 
" and Testament of George Worthilake, of the island commonly called and 
" known by the name of Pemberton's Island, within the Township of Boston, 
" in the Massathusetts Colony in New England." 

Hexry C. Short. 

A policy issued by the Massachusetts Fire and Marine Insurance Company, 
dated Boston, Nov 2, 1S02, signed by Arnold Welles as President, countersigned 
by William Scollay as Secretary, with engraved frontispiece, /. R. Smith, sc, 
showing a view of State Street at an early period. 

D.\NiEL Simpson. 

Portrait in oil, by Cobb, of Daniel Simpson, the veteran drummer of the 
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company. 

Drum, beaten by John Robbins, at the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 
1775- 

Henry S. Smith, 

Specimen of the first Star Badge worn by the Boston Police, adopted in the 
mayoralty of Benjamin Seaver, 1853. 

James Rindge Stanwood. 

Commission of Cutting Lunt, as ensign of the foot company in the Essex 
Regiment of Militia. Given at the Council Chamber in Boston, May 2, 1751, 
by "William Shirley, Esq., Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief, in and 
over His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England." 

James H. Stark 

Electrotype view of the mansion formerly the residence of John Mayo and 
Cotton Mather, erected in 1656. 

Electrotype reproduction of a copper-plate print, showing State Street at an 
early period. 

W. W. Wheildon, of Concord. 

Fragment of one of the Paddock elms, formerly standing on Tremont street, 
in front of the Granary Burial-ground. 

Piece of the Post to which Washington tied his horse at fortifications on 
Boston Neck, when entering this city in 1789. 

Mrs. W. W. Wheildon, of Concord. 

A water-color sketch of the present State House, Beacon Hill, taken in 
1805, for Benjamin Gleason, the father of the donor. 

William H. Whitmore. 

Diagram entitled : "Old State House, State Street, Boston; plan of second 
floor, showing circular staircase, hall, and the four ante-rooms adjoining, with 
representation in dotted lines of the original oak framing around the staircase 
opening. All indications shown found in the restoration of iSSi." 

Electrotype view of the Boston City Hospital. 

Steel-plate portrait of Benjamin Franklin, after the painting by Duplessis, 
R, L. Babson & y. Andrews, sc. 

Bartlett's illustrated map of Boston, C. H. Bartlett, lith., i^'ji. 

Wood engraving, entitled : " The Mayor and Aldermen of Boston, 1853. 
Copper-plate portrait of Rev. Joseph Sewall, for fifty-six years pastor of the 
Old South Church, died 1769. 



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Lithographic portrait by Borer, of Rev. Sebastian Streeter, pastor of the 
First Universalist Church in Boston, 1S24-1S67. 

Electrotype reproduction of an engraving on copper, by Paul Revere, entitled : 
" A View of the Obelisk erected under Liberty Tree in Boston, on the rejoic- 
ings for the repeal of the Stamp act, 1766." 

Badges used by Committee of the Boston City Government at Washington, 
Sept. 23, iSSi ; Badges used at the Garfield Memorial service held in Tremont 
Temple, Boston; two copies of resolution passed by the Honorable Artillery 
Company of London, on receipt of the tidings of the death of President Gar- 
field ; copy of invitation of the City Government of Boston, to attend the 
ceremony of rededication of the Old State House, July 11, 18S2. 

Photographic view, showing front of old City Hall, with Franklin Statue in 
foreground. 

Plans of Boston from actual .survey by Osgood Carleton, for 1796 and 1803; 
another plan of Boston, no date given ; Plan of Boston, engraved for the 
United States Hotel, no date given; Plan of Boston for the year 1S34; View of 
the City of Bo.ston, 1879 ; Map of the business portion of Boston, 1S83. 

Plan of Back Bay, showing its proposed improvement, Feb. 8, 1877. 

Heliotype engraving showing State House and Park Street Church from the 
Common, with the Old Elm in foreground. 

Copies of inscriptions on the bronze tablets placed on the older Burial- 
grounds in Boston. 

Woodcut entitled : Views on Boston Common. 

Heliotype reproduction, reduced, of the First Charter of Massachusetts, 
granted by King Charles the First, March 4, 1629. 

Lithographic portrait hy Boitz'c, oi' Thomas A. Davis, Mayor of Boston, 1845. 

Lithographic view of Minot's Light, destroyed in the gale of April i6, 185 1. 

Lithographic view of Boston Harbor, 1854, by Bufford. 

Copper-plate portrait of John Adams, second President of the United 
States. H. Houston, del ct sr. 

Arthur W. Willard. 

Photographic portrait of John Hancock, after a painting in oil by John Single- 
ton Copley, in the possession of the Hancock family. 

Charles Henry Wise. 

Steel-plate view of Bunker Hill Monument, E. A. Fozvle. sc. 

Lithographic portrait of General Warren, by Pendleton. 

Lithographic view of birth-places of John and John Quincy Adams. 

Copper-plate portrait of Caleb Strong, LL.D., Governor of Massachusetts, 
1 813, I. R. Smith, sc. 

William Woolley. 

Heliotype engravings, specifi.ed as follows : 

Two views of Post-office, City Hall, etc., (then located in Old State House), 
taken from the southwest in Washington Street, in 1835. 

Eight views of Old State House about 1850. 

Six different views of the Old State House, 1S14-1SS0. 

Eight views State Street in iSoi, after the painting by J. B. Marston. 

Seven views of Old State House from Washington Street, following the cut 
in Massachusetts Magazine, 1 791. 



LOAN COLLECTION. 



C. Henry Adams. 

Arms of the Painters' Guild, of England, Ireland and Scotland, 1755, brought 
to this country by Christopher Gore, for his brother Samuel Gore, a painter, 
and which at one time hung upon a building in the locality of the present 
Scollay Square. 

City of Boston. 

An oil painting entitled: "Laying the corner-stone of the Beacon-Hill 
Reservoir, Boston, November 22, 1S47." ^^- Wight-, pinxt. 

Deed of transfer of the Commonwealth's share in the ownership of the Old 
State House, dated April 28, 1803, signed by Enoch Titcomb, Aaron Hill and 
Nicholas Tillinghast, the committee appointed by the General Court to execute 
the transfer. 

Resolution of sympathy passed by the borough of Birmingham, England, 
upon receipt of the news of the great fire in Boston, Nov. 9-10, 1S72. 

" Plan of Boston Common, showing the kind and position of each tree, 
and every other object of importance, from actual survey made under the di- 
rection of the Chief Engineer, December, 1851." H. W. Nicoll, del. 

Lithograph entitled " View of Boston, July 4, 1870." F. Fuc/is, del. et lith. 
Imp. New En£r. Lith. Co. Published by John Weik, 605 Sansom Street, 
Philadelphia 

Lithograph entitled : " View of Boston, Massachusetts, iSSo," Beck & 
Pauli, lith., Milwaukee, Wis., showing the proposed Charles River and Back 
Bay Park, an open area of over 700 acres, after a drawing by H. H. Rowley & Co. , 
Hartford, Conn. 

Lithograph entitled : " Bird's Eye View of Boston," published by B. B. 
Russell & Co., Boston, 1856. y. Mayer & Co., lith., after a drawing by B. F. 
Nutting. 

Lithograph entitled : "The City of Boston," published by Currier & Ives, 
in New York, 1873. Parsons <& Atwater, del. 

Reproduction, made in 1849, ^^^ Frothingham's " Siege of Boston," of a 
map, entitled : "A Plan of the Town of Boston with the Intrenchments, etc., 
of His Majesty's Forces in 1775, from the observations of Lieut. Page, of His 
Majesty's Corps of Engineers, and from the plans of other gentlemen. En- 
graved and printed for W^ Faden, Charing Cross, as the Act directs, ist 
October, 1777.'' 

Reproduction, made in 1S79, °f "^ map entitled " Map of Boston, in the 
State of Massachusetts, surveyed by J. G. Hales, Geog''- and Surveyor, 1814." 

Lithograph entitled : " View of the New Jail for Suffolk County in the State 
of Massachusetts, erecting by the City of Boston, upon Charles and North 
Grove Streets, 1848." Gridley J. F. Bryaut, architect. Bufford, lith., after a 
drawing by H. Billings. 
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Water-color sketch entitled : " Design for an enlargement of Suffolk County 
Registry of Deeds and Probate offices, to afford additional accommodation for 
the offices and an additional story for the occupation of the Chief Engineer. 
Gridley J. F. Bryant, architect, February, 1S59." 

Photographic reproduction of a copper-plate portrait of John Phillips, first 
Mayor of Boston, 1S22. 

Steel-plate portrait ofjosiah Qiiincy, Mayor, 1S23-2S. — //. IP'- Smith, sc, 
after a painting by Stuart. 

Photographic reproduction of a copper-plate portrait of Josiah Q^iincy, 
Mayor, 1S23-28. 

Photographic portrait of Harrison Gray Otis, Mayor, 1829-31. 

Photographic portrait of Charles Wells, Mayor, 1832-33. 

Photographic portrait of Samuel Turell Armstrong. Mayor, 1836. 

Photographic portrait of Martin Brimmer, Mayor, 1S43-44. 

Photographic portrait of Joshua Bates, a benefactor of the Public Library. 

Photographic portrait of Charles Sumner, born 181 1 ; died 1874. 

Photographic view of Monument on Public Garden, commemorative of the 
discovery of Ether. 

Steel-plate engraving of the statue of Benjamin Franklin, in front of City 
Hall. Smith, Knight & Tappan, sc, after a drawing by H. Billings. 

Reproduction of an old copper-plate print, entitled: " A South-east view of 
y' Great Town of Boston, in New-England, America, 1743. Dedicated to 
Peter Faneuil, by William Price." Published for E. Whitefield bj' A. Tomp- 
kins, 38 Cornhill, Boston. 

Photographic view, taken on Boston Common, representing the officers and 
sailors of the Russian Naval Squadron which visited Boston in 1864, during the 
mayoralty of Frederic W. Lincoln. 

A carved representation of the Seal of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay. 

A carved representation of the Arms of the State of Massachusetts. 

George Brown. 

A Tinder-box, with Flint and Steel. 
A lantern of perforated tin, Paul Revere pattern. 

A tin candlestick with box of same material in which to keep spare candles, 
all of the articles named having been used in Boston in 1S17. 

Seth Bryant, of Wollaston. 

Clearance of the schooner Nezvbury from the port of Boston under date of 
April 25, 1765. 

Thomas O. H. P. Burnham. 

The old hall clock of the Rev. Mather Byles, first pastor of Hollis Street 
Church, made by Ga-Me7i Brown, Boston, upon King, (the present State) street, 
in 1750. 

Capt. John Codman. 

A portrait in oil of the Hon. John Codman, a Boston merchant of the Revo- 
lutionary period, born 1755, died 1S03. John Singleton Copley, pinxt. 

Daniel J. Courtney. 

An oil painting, after the original by Salmon, representing the Old State 
House in flames, in 1S32. 



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John S. Damrell, Trustee. 

Pastel of Major Thomas Melvill, attributed to Johti Shtgleton Copley, 

Official staff of Major Melvill as Fire-ward of Boston, 1779-1825. 

The three-cornered hat said to have been worn bj Major Melvill at the 

Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770. 

Stephen G. Deblois. 

An attested copy of the depositions of William Trevour, William Blackstone, 
the Sachem of Agawam,and Miles Standish, relative to Trevour's, now Thomp- 
son's Island in Boston harbor, deposed before the whole Court, 25th October, 
1650, by Edward Rawson, Secretary of the Massachusetts Colony. 

John L. D'Wolf and Nancy M. Downer. 

An oil painting bj Salmon, entitled : "The late Thomas Melville, Esq''* 
House, June 20, 1832." 

Mrs. Nancy M. Downer. 

A portrait in oil of Major Thomas Melvill, born Jan. 16, 1751 ; died Sept. 
16, 1832. Alexander, pinxt. 

A. A. FoLSOM. 

A photographic view after an engraving by A. Willard and J. W. Barber, 
from an original drawing by J. W. Barber, made in 1839, entitled "Boston: 
The above shows the appearance of Boston as seen from the south-west, near 
the intersection of the Providence and Worcester railroads." 

Ward Brooks Frothingiiam, 

A photographic view of the fourth edifice of the " First Church of Christ in 
Boston," erected in Chauncy Place, 1S07, razed 1S71. 

His Excellency the Governor. 

An engrossed parchment, being an attestation from the archives of the 
Executive Department, and the office of the Secretary of State, as to the verity 
of the table of the Executive Council before the Revolution, sent by His Ex- 
cellency Benjamin F. Butler, Governor, with advice and consent of the Coun- 
cil, to be preserved in the Old State House. 

His Excellency the Governor and the Honorable the Council of the 
Commonwealth. 

The table of the Executive Council before the Revolution, removed from the 
Old State House to the new structure upon Beacon Hill in 1798. 

Twenty-four of the old Senate arm-chairs. 

John Gray. 

An oil painting by y. W. A. Scott, entitled, "View of Boston harbor, 1S53." 

Hon. Samuel A. Green, M.D. 

A hand-colored copper-plate portrait entitled: "The Hon*"'' John Han- 
cock, Esq., late President of the Continental Congress." Born 1737, died 1793. 

A hand-colored copper-plate print engraved by Paul Revere, entitled : " A 
view of part of the Town of Boston in New-England, and Brittish Ships of 
War landing their Troops, 176S."' 

Luther L. Jenkins. 

Lithographic view by Prang, of the Old Warehouse in Dock Square, later 
known as the Old Feather Store. Erected 16S0, razed 1S60. 



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Herbert W. Kimball. 

A portrait in oil of Daniel Webster, born 1782 ; died 1852. 

Charles Libbey. 

A lithographic view by Biifford, published in 1854, with accompanying key, 
after the sketch by Freeman Richardson, entitled : " En\ irons of Boston, from 
Corey's Hill, Brookline." 

H. A. May. 

A copper-plate engraving embracing vignette portraits of Washington, Ad- 
ams, Jeflferson, and Madison, " printed by Shelton and Kensett, Cheshire, 
Conn. Thomas Gimbrcdc, sc. New York, January 30, 1812." 

Thomas Minns. 

A coppei'-plate portrait entitled: "The Hon*''^ John Hancock, of Boston, in 
New-England; President of the American Congress.'' Done from an original 
picture, painted by Littleford. London : Published as the Act directs. 25th 
October, 1775, by C. Shepherd. 

A copper-plate portrait of " The Right Hon. Isaac Barre, from an original 
picture hy A. G. Stuart, in the possession of the Earl of St. Vincent." W. T. 
Frye, sc, after a drawing by W. Evans. Published Feb. i, 1S17, by T. Cadell 
and W. Davies, Strand, London. 

New England Historic, Genealogical Society. 

A portrait in oil of Judge Samuel Sewall, born 1652, died 1730. 
A portrait in oil of Hon. Isaac Addington, born 1644-5, died 1715. 
A portrait in oil of Col. William Tyler, born 1687, died 175S. 

Miss Eliza Susan Qltincy, of Qiiincy. 

A portrait in oil of George Washington, born 1732. died 1799. Gilbert 
Stuart, pinxt. 

Hon. Josiah Quincy. 

A portrait in oil of Josiah Qj.iincy, junior, the patriot, born 1744: died 1775. 
Gilbert Stuart , pinxt. 
Daguerreotype view of the Mayor and Aldermen of Boston, 1848. 

Warren G. Roby, of Wayland. 

One of the old arm-chairs formerly in the Council Chamber of the Old State 
House. 

Samuel H. Russell. 

A water-color sketch of the old parsonage of Brattle-Square Church, formerly 
standing upon Court Street, on th ' site of the building at present occupied b}- 
the Adams Express Company. J. F. Fuller, del., 1855. 

The Commission of Nathaniel P. Russell of Boston, as Ensign in the 
sub-legion of Light Infantry, M. V. M., signed by Gov. Caleb Strong, under 
date of March 31, 1807. 

A copper-plate portrait of Benjamin Franklin, Li. Tanner, sc., following 
the painting by Cocltiii in 1777. 

Herman B. Tewksbury, of Winthrop. 

A notification of the rejoicings ordered by the Town of Boston, for Monday, 
May 19, 1766, in honor of the repeal of the Stamp Act by the British Parlia- 
ment. Dated May 16, 1766, and signed by William Cooper, Town Clerk. 



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A Broadside announcing the surrender of Lord Cornwallis and his army, 
printed at Boston, Oct. 26^ 1781, bj N. Willis. 

A Warrant from Harrison Gray, Treasurer of the Province of Massachusetts- 
Bay, to John Tewksbury, as Constable and Collector of Chelsea, Dec. 31, 1772. 

A notification to the citizens of Boston, to meet in Faneiiil Hall, to fill the 
Town quota for the Continental Army, April 25, 17S1. Signed by William 
Cooper, Town Clerk. 

John Wild, of South Braintree. 

A quadrant made by Samuel Thaxter, at the corner of Broad and State Streets, 
Boston, in 1792. 

William H. Whitmore. 

A copper-plate portrait of King George the Second, (born 16S3 ; died 1760,; 
entitled: " Georgius, D. G. Mag: Brit: Fran: cf Hib: Rex F. D. Brnn : et 
Lunen : Dux S.R.I. Arch: Thcsaur : et Prinrcp$ Elector etc. Tnauguratus 
20 die Octobris, J714." G. Kneller, baronet, pinx. 1719. P. Pcliiam, fecit, 
cum privilegio regis. Sold by E. Cooper, at the 3 pigeons in Bedford Street. 

A copper-plate portrait entitled : " The true Effigies of the Most Illustrious 
Princess Anna Sophia of Hanover, declared by a late Act of Parliament for 
settling the Succession in ye Protestant line to succeed to the Crozvn of Eng- 
la?td after Her Alatie ^ueen Ann and her Royal Issue. Done from ye origittal 
brought from Hanover by ye Right Hon^^e Tho: L^ Raby, and dedicated to his 
Lordshipp by his most humble servant I. B." Sold by lohn Bowles, opposite 
to Stocks Markt. etc., and at Mercers Hall, Cheapside. /. Simon, fecit, cum 
privilegio. 

A copper-plate view entitled : "A Prospective Plan of tlie Battle fought near 
Lake George upon the Sth September, 1755, etc." Thotnas Johnston, sc, after 
the sketch by S. Blodget, dedicated to Governor Shirley. 

A copper-plate portrait entitled : '' Thomas Pownall, Esq''- Member of Par- 
liament, late Governor, Captain General and Commander-in-Chief and Vice 
Admiral of His Majesty's Provinces Massachusetts-Bay and South Carolina, 
and Lieut. Governor of New-Jersey." Earlom, fecit, after the painting by 
Coles. London : Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, 53 Fleet Street, as the 
Act directs, 5th June, 1777. 

A steel-plate portrait of Sir Edmund Andros, Governor of the Province of Mas- 
sachusetts-Bay, 1686-1688, from the original picture in the possession of Annas 
Charles Andros, Esq., of London. 

A water-color view of Fort Hill. JV. T. B. Dobbins, del.. 1S07. 

A sepia drawing of the Jonathan Phillips estate, now Tremont Street and 
Pemberton Square. G. L. Brovjn, del., 1836. 

A photographic view of the residence of the late Gardiner Greene, formerly 
standing upon Pemberton Hill. 

A lithographic view by/. H. Bradford, entitled: ''Beacon Street, Boston, 
1S43," showing the residences of Thomas Dixon and B. P. Homer, 

Electrotype reproductions as follows : 

View from Fort Hill, after the water-color sketch by W. T. B. Dobbins. 

View of Jonathan Phillips estate, after the sepia drawing made by G. H. 
Brown, 1. 1836. 

Pemberton Hill from the late Gardiner Greene's garden, about 1826. 

State Street in 1804, after the painting by J. B. Marston. 



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A steel-plate engraving entitled: Boston and its Environs." y. Poppel, sc. 
Munich, 1859. 

A paper found in the Faneuil Hall Grasshopper vane, when it fell, 
November iS, 1753. 

Two copper-plate membership certificates of the artillery organization known 
as His Majesty's Inlisted Montrosses, with views of the North and South Batte- 
ries in foreground. P. Revere, sc. 

A heliotvpe reproduction entitled : "St. Botolph's Church, Boston, England, 
from an original engraving, presented to Mrs. Watson by J. Noble, Major of 
Boston, Old England." 

A heliotjpe reproduction of a sketch by George F. Loring, entitled: "Old 
State House as it was and as it is." Published in 1S76, before the restoration. 

Broadside entitled : '"A Few Lines on occasion of the untimely End of Mark 
and Phyllis, vjho -were executed, at Cambridge, September jSth, {i7SS)i f'^^ 
Poyso7iing their Master, Capt. John Codman, of Charlestown." 

A copper-plate portrait entitled: "Jonathan Mayhevj, D.D .: pastor of the 
West Chvrch, in Boston, in Neiv-England, {/■/^y-ijdd'), an assertor of the Civil 
and religiovs Liberties of his covntrv and mankind, tvho, overplied by pvblic 
energies, died of a Nervovs Fever, Ivly VIII, MDCCLXVI, aged XXXXV." 
I. B. Cipriani, sc, MDCCLXVI I. 

A copper-plate portrait of Rev. Cotton Mather, pastor of the North Church, 
16S4-1728. " Cottofius Matherus, S. Thcologice Doctor Regia; Societaiis Lon- 
dinensis Socius. et EcclesiiE apud Bostomitn Nov-Angloruin nuper Prcepositus." 
.^tatis sii(P LAV, MDCCXXVII. P. Pclham ad vivutn pin.xit ab origin 
Fecit ct cxcud. 

A copper-plate portrait of Rev. Thomas Prince, pastor of the Old South 
Church, 1718-1758. '■'■Thomas Prince, A.M., ^uintus EcclesicE Australis Bos- 
tonii Nov-Anglorum, Pastor, e Collegii Harvardini Cajitabrigice Curatoribus, 
Satnuelis Armigeri Filius et Thomw A.M., denati Pater." P. Pelhani, fecit, 
after a painting by John Greenwood. Printed for and sold by J. Buck, at 
ye Spectacles in Qj.ieen-Street, Boston, 1750. 

A copper plate portrait of " The Reverend Timothy Cutler, D.D., of Christ 
Church, Boston, N. E.'' 1723-1765. P. Pelham, pinxt. et fecit, I'JS'^- 

A Copper-plate portrait of ''The Rev't. Mr. William Cooper, of Boston in 
Nezv England, ^-Et. 50, 1743," pastor of Brattle-Square Church, 17 16-1743. 
P. Pclha7n, fecit, after the painting by Smibert. Printed for and sold by Step" 
Whiting, at ye Rose and Crown in Union Street, Boston. 

A copper-plate portrait of " The Reverend John Moor head, Minister of 
a Church of Presbyterian Strangers at Boston in Nexv-England,'''' 1730-1773. 
P. Pclham, pinx. ct fecit, 1731. 

A copper-plate portrait of " The Reverend Bcnjainin Colman, D-D.'' first 
pastor of Brattle-Square Church, 1699-1747. P. Pclham, fecit, 1733, after a 
painting by Smibert. 

A copper-plate portrait of " The Rev^ M>'- William Welsteed, of Boston in 
Nexv-England, ^-Et. 38, 1733.'' Pastor of the New Brick Church, 172S-1753. 
y. S. Copley, pinxt. et fecit. Printed for and sold by Step" Whiting, at ye Rose 
and Crown, in Union-Street, Boston. 

A copper-plate portrait of " The Rez<erend yonathan Mayhew, D. D., pastor 
of the West Church in Boston,'' 1747-1766. Rich^ ycnnys, jU7i^, pinxt. et fecit. 
Printed and sold by Nath. Hurd, engrav on ye Exchange. 



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A photographic portrait after the painting and engraving by Pelhatn, in 
1750, entitled: " The Reverend William Hooper, A. M., Minister of Trinity 
Church, Boston, N-E." 1747-1767. 

A photographic portrait after the engraving by Pelhatn, in 1750, entitled : 
" The Reverend Henry Caner, A. M., Minister of King's Chapel, Boston,'" 
1747-1776. 

A copper-plate portrait entitled : " Thomas Hollis, late of Lojidon, a 
Me re hi. a most generous Benefactor to Harvard College in N. E., having 
founded two Professorships and ten Scholarships in the said College, given a 
fine Apparatus for Experimental Philosophy, and increased the Library -with a 
large number of valuable books, etc., Obiit 17 Ji, yEt. 7/." Jos. Highmore, 
pinxt. 1722. P. Pelhatn ab origin: fecit et excud. 17^1. 

A copper-plate portrait of '^'^ The Rev. Mr. Samuel Willard," pastor of the 
Old South Church, 167S-1707. G. V'dr. Gucht, sc. 

A copper-plate portrait of the Rev. Samuel Cooper, pastor of Brattle Square 
Church, 1746-1783. '' Revd'is Satnuel Cooper, S.T.D. Ecclesice apud Bostotiicn- 
ses pastor atnatitissitnus. Nattis viccsitno octavo Martis A. D. 172J. Ob: vices- 
itno nono Decetnbris J78J. yEt. 59. V. Greeti, ttiezzotitito etigraver to His 
Majesty, and to the Elector Palatine, 2g Nexvtnan street, London, 1784." 

A copper-plate portrait of Rev. Daniel Sharp, D.D., pastor of the Charles 
Street Baptist Church, 1812-1S53. Sartain, sc. 

A copper-plate view of the Tremont House, Isaiah Rogers, Architect, after a 
drawing by James Kidder, Annin d- Stnith, sc. 

A portrait in oil of Peter Pelham, the early Boston engraver, died 1751. yohn 
Sitigletoti Copley, pinxt. 

An oil painting representing the Tremont House, as it appeared in 1832. 
Saltnon, pitixt. 

Heliotype reproductions as follows : 

View of Old State House from the South-west, taken from Washington 
Street. 

Washington Street end of Old State House in 1791, from Massachusetts 
Magazine. 

Old State House at different periods between 1814-18S0. 

A medal commemorative of the centennial anniversary of the battle of 
Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. 

A medal commemorative of the centennial anniversary of the Signing of the 
Treat}' of Peace between Great Britain and America, 1783. 

A Boston School Medal, date of 1865. 

A colored print after an oil painting entitled: "View of the City of Boston 
from Dorchester Heights." Robert Hav ell, pinxt. et sc. 

An impression from the original copper-plate engraved by Paul Revere, 
entitled: " The Bloody Massacre, perpetrated in King-street, Boston, March 5, 
1770, by a party of the 29th Regt." 

Rev. William C. Winslow. 

The brass door-knocker from the old Winslow house at Marshfield, Massa- 
chusetts, formerly occupied by Governor Winslow, of the Plymouth Colony. 
Engraved inscription : " From the Winslow House, Marshfield, Mass : came in 
Mayflovjer, 1620; presented by Hon. Daniel Webster to Dr. G. Winslow, S pt. 
12, 1850." 

The Marriage intention of Rev. Lyman Beecher and Miss Lydia Jackson, 
dated at Cambridge, Oct. 7, 1836. 

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OFFICERS FOR 1884 



President. 

CURTIS GUILD, 



Directors. 



Thomas C Amory, 
William S. Appleton, 
William H. Baldwin, 
Curtis Guild, 



John T. Hassam, 
Hamilton A. Hill, 
Thomas Minns, 
Samuel H. Russell, 



William H. Whitmore. 



Clerk and Treasurer. 
James M. Hubbard, 



Committee on the Rooms. 

William H. Whitmore, I Samuel H. Russell, 

William S. Appleton, | James Rindge Stanwood, 

Augustus T. Perkins. 



Committee on Papers. 

Hamilton A. Hill, | John Ward Dean. 

James F. Hunnewell. 



Committee on Membership. 



Thomas Minns, 
William H. Baldwin, 
J. C. J. Brown, 



Samuel M. Quincy, 
W. W. Warren, 
Erving Winslow. 



M EM BE RS. 



Edward A. Abbott, 

Waldo Adams, 

Stillman B. Allen, 

Thomas J. Allen, 

Oakes A. Ames, 

Samuel T. Ames, 

Frederick Amorj, 

Thomas C. Amorj, 

John F. Andrew, 

H. C. Angell, 

Nathan Appleton, 

Thomas G. Appleton, 

William Appleton, 

William S. Appleton, 

John V. Apthorp, 

*Robert East Apthorp, 

Edward Atkinson, 

James W. Austin, 

Abraham Averj, 

James B. Ajer, 

Joseph T. Bailey, 

William H. Baldwin, 

Robert H. Bancroft, 

John N. Barbour, 

Charles D. Barry, 

Leander Beal, 

A. D. S. Bell, 

S. Arthur Bent, 

*Alanson Bigelow, 

George B. Bigelow. 

Robert C. Billings, 

Robert R. Bishop, 

John E. Blakemore, 

Joshua P. Bodfish, 

Matthew Bolles, 

Thomas T. Bouve, 

Charles P. Bowditch, 

Martin L. Bradford (Life Member), 

Caleb D. Bradlee, 

John T. Bradlee, 

J. P. Bradlee (Life Member), 

Charles Rollin Brainard, 

G. T. W. Braman, 

John L. Bremer, 



Richard Briggs, 

Martin Brimmer, 

Henry C. Brooks, 

Peter C. Brooks, 

Phillips Brooks, 

Shepherd Brooks, 

Alfred S. Brown, 

Buckminster Brown, 

James Wentworth Brown, 

J. C. J. Brown, 

Samuel N. Brown, 

C. Allen Browne, 

T. Qiiincy Browne, 

James M. Bugbee, 

George S. Bullens, 

Horatio S. Burdett, 

Thomas O. H. P. Burnham, 

Alvah A. Burrage, 

J. Foster Bush, 

Sigourney Butler, 

B. S. Calef, 

John W. Candler, 

Frank O. Carpenter, 

H. Bernard Carpenter, 

Charles Carruth, 

Charles M. Carter, 

James B. Case, 

Mellen Chamberlain, 

Francis W. Chandler. 

Horace P. Chandler, 

Thomas H. Chandler, 

George B. Chase (Life Member; 

Theodore Chase (Life Member), 

*Dudley R. Child, 

Channing Clapp, 

N. Bowditch Clapp, 

Otis Clapp, 

Cyrus T. Clark, 

*D. Oakes Clark, 

Edmund S Clark, 

Joseph W. Clark, 

Botsford R. Clarke, 

*Dorus Clarke, 

James Freeman Clarke, 



4Y 



T. W. Clarke, 
Samuel W. Clifford. 
Samuel W. Clifford, jr.. 
George A. Clough, 
Alexander Cochrane, 
William C. Codman, 
Jeremiah Colburn, 
*Ebenezer Collamore 
E. S. Converse, 
A. L. Coolidge, 
J. T. Coolidge, jr. 
John Cordner. 
S. W. Creech, jr. 
George G. Crocker. 
Uriel Crocker, 
C. A. W. Crosby, 
Samuel B. Cruft, 
♦Samuel Thaxter Cushing. 
Charles H. Dalton, 
Francis Dana, 
George N. Dana, 
Isaac W. Danforth. 
James H. Danforth, 
Moses Grant Daniell, 
James C. Davis, 
John Ward Dean, 
George L. Deblois, 
Stephen G. Deblois, 
Morton Dexter, 
S. Parkman Dexter, 
William S. Dexter, 
M. F. Dickinson, jr., 
Oliver Ditson, 
John H. Dix, 
Theodore A. Dodge, 
Jacob A. Dresser, 
James A. Dupee, 
Edmund Dwight, 
Benjamin F. Dyer, 
Walter D. Eaton, 
Otis Eddy, 
H. H. Edes, 
Robert T. Edes, 
J. P. EUicott, 
William Endicott. jr.. 
Dana Estes (Life Member], 
W. Tracy Eustis, 
Percival L. Everett. 
George F. Fabyan, 
A. C. Fearing, jr.. 



Mortimer C. Ferris, 
Eustace C. Fitz, 

A. A. Folsom, 
H. W. Foote, 

J. Murray Forbes, 
l^obert B. Forbes, 
John Foster, (Life Member) , 
Benjamin French, 
Charles E. French, 
Frederick W. French, 
J. D. Williams French, 
Rufus S. P>ost, 

B. A. G. Fuller, 
Charles E. Fuller, 

C. W. Galloupe, 
George A. Gardner, ' 
John Gardner, 

John L. Gardner, 
John L. Gardner, jr. , 
Henry Gassett, 
Jos. M. Gibbens, 
Daniel A. Gleason, 
J. M. Glidden, 
William T. Glidden, 
William Goddard, 
Charles B. Gookin, 
James L. Gorham, 
i^. A. Gould, 
John C. Gray. 
J. Converse Gray, 
Joseph H. Gray, 
George H. Green. 
F. B. Greenough, 
W. W. Greenough, 
W. O. Grover, 
Curtis Guild, 
George K. Guild, 
E. E. Hale, 
Edward R. Hall, 
John R. Hall, 
Thomas B. Hall, 
Richard P. Hallowell, 
N. P. Hamlen, 
George W. Hammond. 
Charles L. Harding, 
Charles Harris, 
William T. Hart, 
John T. Hassam, 
Francis B. Hayes, 
Henry W. Haynes, 



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George Hayward, 
Charles Head, 
J- Theodore Heard. 
Jacob H. Hecht, 
Alfred Hemenway, 
Brooke Herford, 
Alfred H. Hersej. 
A. F. Hervej, 
Waldo Higginson, 
Clement Hugh Hill, 
Hamilton A. Hill, 
William Hilton, 
John Hogg, 
Alfred D. Hoitt, 
Edward H. Holbrook, 
Henry W. Holland, 
Charles H. Holman, 
C. D. Honians, 
George H. Homans, 
R. W. Hooper, 
William H. Horton, 
Henry O. Houghton, 
George D. Howe, 
Osborn Howes, jr., 
* Aaron D. Hubbard, 
C. E. Hubbard, 
James M. Hubbard. 
Richard C. Humphreys, 
H. H. Hunnewell, 
James F. Hunnewell, 
William V. Hutchings, 
Joseph A. lasigi, 
Charles Inches, 
Charles E. Inches, 
Francis Jacques, 
George Abbot James, 
George F. Jelly, 
Henry F.Jenks, 
Thomas L. Jenks, 
Bernard Jenney, 

C. E. Johnson, 
Edward C. Johnson, 
Samuel Johnson, 

D. W. Jones, 
Leonard A. Jones, 
Charles S. Kendall, 
M. P. Kennard, 

W. H. Kennard, 
George G. Kennedy, 
H. P. Kidder, 



Benjamin Kimball, 
Babson S. Ladd, 
Nathaniel W. Ladd, 
William H. Ladd, 
George Lamb, 
Thomas Lamb, 
Thomas R. Lambert, 
John Lathrop, 
Abbott Lawrence, 
William H. Lee, 
John A. Lewis, 
Weston Lewis, 
Arthur Lincoln, 
F. W. Lincoln, 
Solomon Lincoln. 
Samuel Little, 
Hartley Lord, 
John A. Loring, 
S. K. Lothrop, 
T. K. Lothrop, 
Joseph S. Lovering, 
George G. Lowell, 
Matthew Luce, 
Henry Lyon, 
Robert C. Mackay, 
Thomas Mair, 
Francis H. Manning, 
Fred. G. May, 
Fred. W. G. May, 
John Joseph May, 
Samuel May, 
Edward R. Mayo, 
William G. Means, 
Ebenezer C. Milliken, 
Henry F. Mills, 
William N. Mills, 
Thomas Minns, 
Francis Minot, 
Frederick H. Moore, 
H. A. Morse, 
Alexander Moseley, 
Thomas S. Newell, 
Andrew Nickerson, 
Thomas Niles, 
John Noble, 
Grenville H. Norcross, 
*Otis Norcross, 
C. B. Norton, 
B. F. Nourse, 
Frederic R. Nourse, 



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Edward L. Osgood, 
James R. Osgood, 
Edward Page, 
John C Paige, 
J. S. Paine, 
R. T. Paine, jr., 
F. W. Palfrey, 
John C. Palfrey, 
Charles W. Parker, 
Edgar Parker, 
Harvey D. Parker, 
F. Parkman, 
Albert S. Parsons, 
Eugene E. Patridge, 
Charles B. Peabody, 
Henry \V. Peabody, 
Pearce W. Penhallow, 
Augustus T. Perkins, 
C. C. Perkins, 
Thomas H. Perkins, 
William Perkins, 
Charles F. Perry, 
Jacob PfafF, 
John C. Phillips, 
George F. Pierce, 
N. W. Pierce, 
Phineas Pierce, 
Charles Lawrence Pierson, 
William T. Piper, 
Albert C. Pond, 
Alex. S. Porter, 
Edward G. Porter, 
John W. Porter, 

Louis Prang, 

Edward Ellerton Pratt, 
John C. Pratt, 

Laban Pratt, 

George H. Preble, 

Jonathan Preston, 

William G. Preston, 

George F. Putnam, 

George Henry Quincy, 

Josiah Quincy, 

Samuel M. Quincy, 

Henry R. Reed, 

James Reed, 

Henry C. Richards, 

Augustus Richardson, 

F. L. Richardson, 

George C. Richardson, 



Thomas O. Richardson, 
Spencer W. Richardson, 
Henry A. Rice, 
George Ripley, 
Nathan D. Robinson, 
Alfred P. Rockwell, 
Henry B. Rogers, 
John C Ropes, 
William Rotch, 
Augustus Russ, 
Samuel H. Russell, 
Nathaniel J. Rust, 
William Appleton Rust, 
D. W. Salisbury, 
Edwin H. Sampson. 
George D. Sargent, 
Lucius M. Sargent, 
Joseph Sawyer, 
Samuel E. Sawyer, 
Geo. W. Searle, 
J.j^Henry Sears, 
J. Montgomery Sears, 
K. W. Sears, 
Philip H. Sears, 

Samuel E. Sewall, 

George O. Shattuck, 

Henry L. Shaw, 

H. S. Shaw, (Life Member.) 

Lemuel Shaw, 

William G. Shillaber, 

Lucius Slade, 

E. F. Slafter, 

Andrew C Slater, 
Jacob Sleeper, 

William H. Slocum, 

Charles C. Smith, 

Elbridge Smith, 

George H. Snelling, 

Samuel G. Snelling, 

S. T. Snow, 

Henry Souther, 

A. J. C. Sowdon, 

M. D. Spaulding, 

A. W. Spencer, 

Henry H. Sprague, 

L. Miles Standish, 

James Rindge Stanwood, 

Edward Stearns, 

George Stedman, 

Amos W. Stetson, 



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Oliver Crocker Stevens, 

J. Henry Stickney, 

C. W. Stone, 

W. Brandt Storer, 

Franklin H. Story, 

Edward A. Strong, 

Richard Sullivan, 

W. W. Swan, 

B. W. Taggard, 

I. T. Talbot, 

William H. Talbot, 

Thomas F. Temple, 

W. F. Temple, 

Henry C. Thacher, 

Edward F. Thayer, 

George Qiiincy Thorndike, 

S. Lothrop Thorndike. 

Walter E. Thwing, 

Benjamin B. Torrey, 

Charles R. Train, 

W. B. Trask, 

Arthur W. Tufts, 

Job A. Turner, jr., 

George B. Upton, 

*George Christie Van Benthuysen, 

Fred H. Viaux, 

J. Thomas Vose, 

Thomas B. Vose, 

Alex. F. Wadsworth. 

George W. Wales, 

Nathaniel Walker, 

Henshaw B. Walley, 

Francis J. Ward, 

*G. Washington Warren, 

Joseph W. Warren, 

S. D. Warren, 

William Wilkins Warren. 

Winslow Warren, 

Andrew G. Weeks, 



James H. Weeks. 

Charles A. Welch, 

A. Davis Weld, jr., 

Moses W. Weld, 

Otis Everett W^eUl (Life Member), 

Samuel Wells, 

:^,Jark R. Wendell, 

Arioch Wentworth, 

Andrew C. Wheelwright, 

Edward Wheelwright, 

W. W. Wheildon, 

J. Gardner White, 

Charles T. White, 

Henry Whitman, 

Charles J. Whitmore, 

C. O. Whitmore, (Life Member), 
William H. Whitmore, 

D. R. Whitney, 
Edward Whitney, 
James L. Whitney, 
Henry Whittemore, 
Arthur W. Willard, 
R. Willard, 

Levi L. Willcutt. 

S. D. G. Willcutt, 

Alexander Williams, 

Henry W. Williams, 

Jacob L. Williams, 

C. B. Wilson, 

Thomas B. Winchester, 

Erving Winslow, 

William C. Winslow, 

R. C. Winthrop, jr. (Life Member), 

J. Huntington Wolcott, 

J. W. Wolcott. 

William B. Wood, 

Arthur Stanley Woodward, 

William Woolley, 

John Worster. 



BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 



ORGAl^IZED TO PROMOTE THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF BOSTON 
AND THE PRESERVATION OF ITS ANTIQUITIES. 



BY-LAWS. 

I. 

OBJECTS. 

It shall be the duty of members, so far as it may be in their power, to carry 
out the objects of the Society, by collecting, by gift, loan, or purchase, books, 
manuscripts, and pictures, and by such other suitable means as may, from time 
to time, seem expedient. 

II. 

MEMBERS. 

The members of the Bostonian Society shall be such persons, either resident 
or non-resident in Boston, as shall, after having been proposed and accepted as 
candidates at any regular monthly meeting by the Directors, be elected by the 
votes of a majority of the members present and voting. 

III. 

HONORARY AND CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. 

Honorary and Corresponding members shall^be nominated by the Directors, 
and shall be elected by ballot by two-thirds of the members present and voting. 
They may take part in the meetings of the Society, but shall not be entitled to 
vote. 

IV. 

ADMISSION FEE AND ASSESSMENTS. 

Each member shall pay five dollars at the time of his admission, and five dol- 
lars each first of January afterwards, into the treasury of the Society for its 
general purposes; but if any member shall neglect to pay his admission fee, or 
annual assessment, for three months after the same is due, he shall be liable to 
forfeit his membership at any time when the Directors shall so order. 

The payment of the sum of twenty-five dollars in any one year by any member 
of the Society shall constitute him a life member of the Society ; life 
members shall be free from assessments, and entitled to all the rights and 
privileges of annual members. The money received for such life memberships 
shall constitute a fund, of which not more than twenty per cent, together with 
the annual income shall be spent in any one year. 



V. 

CERTIFICATES. 

Certificates signed hy the President, and countersigned by the Treasurer, shall 
be issued to all persons who have become lite members of the Society. 

VI. 

MEETIN(;s. 

The annual meeting of" the Society shall be held on the second Tuesday in 
January, and regular meetings shall be held on the second Tuesday of every 
month, excepting July, August, and September, at such time and place as the 
Directors shall appoint. Special meetings shall be called by the Clerk, under 
the instruction of the Directors. 

At all meetings ten members shall be a quorum for business. All Committees 
shall be nominated by the Chair unless otherwise ordered. 

VII. 

OP'FICERS. 

The officers of the Society shall be nine Directors, a President, a Clerk, and 
a Treasurer. The Directors, Clerk, and Treasurer shall be chosen by ballot at 
the annual meeting in January, and shall hold office for one year, and until 
others are duly chosen and qualified in their stead. 

The President shall be chosen by the Board of Directors, from their number, 
at their first meeting after election, or at any adjournment thereof. 

The offices of Clerk and Treasurer may be held by the same person. 

VIII. 

VACANCIES. 

Any vacancy in the Board of Directors, or the oflice of Clerk or Treasurer, 
may be filled for the remainder of the term at any regular meeting of the So- 
ciety, by the votes of two-thirds of the members present and voting. 

In the absence of the Clerk at any meeting of the Society, a Clerk />ro 
tempore shall be chosen. 

IX. 

NOMINATING COMMITTEE. 

At the monthly meeting in December, a Nominating Committee of three 
persons shall be appointed, who shall report at the annual meeting a list of 
candidates for the places to be filled. 

X. 

PRESIDING OFFICER. 

The President, or in his absence one of the Directors, shall preside at all 
meetings of the Society. In the absence of all these officers, a President /r<7 
tempore shall be chosen. 

XI. 

DUTIES OF CLERK. 

The Clerk shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of his duties. 
lie shall notify all meetings of the Society. He shall keep an exact record 
of all the proceedings of the Society at its meetings. 



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He shall conduct the general correspondence of the Society, and place on file 
all letters received. 

He shall enter the names of members systematically in books kept for the 
purpose, and issue certificates of life membership. 

The Clerk shall have such charge of ;ill property in the possession of the 
Society as may from time to time be delegated to him by the Board of Directors. 

He shall acknowledge each loan or gift that may l)e made to and accepted in 
behalf of the Society. 

xn. 

DUTIES OF TREASURER. 

The Treasurer shall collect all monies due to the Society, and pa\^ all bills 
against the Society, when approved by the Board of Directors. 

Pie shall keep a full account of receipts and expenditures in a book belonging 
to the Society, which shall always be open to the inspection of the Directors; 
and, at the annual meeting in January, he shall make a written report of all his 
doings for the year preceding. 

The Treasurer shall give bond in the sum of one hundred dollars, with one 
surety, for the faithful discharge of his duties. 

XIII. 

DUTIES AND POWERS OF DIRECTORS. 

The Directors shall superintend and conduct the prudential and executive 
business of the Society; shall authorize all expenditures of money ; fix all 
salaries; provide a common seal; receive and act upon all resignations and for- 
feitures of membership, and see that the By-Laws are duly complied with. 

The Directors shall have full power to comply with the terms of the lease of 
the rooms in the Old State House made with the City of Boston, and to make 
all necessary rules and regulations required in the premises. 

They shall annually, in the month of April, make a careful comparison of 
the articles in the possession of the Society with the list to be returned to the 
City of Boston under the terms of the lease, and certify to its correctness. 

They shall make a report of their doings at the annual meeting of the Society. 

The Directors may, from time to time, appoint such sub-committees as they 
deem expedient. 

In case of a vacancy in the office of Clerk or Treasurer, they shall have power 
to choose a Clerk or Treasurer ^;-<? tempore till the next meeting of the Society. 

XIV. 

MEETINGS OF DIRECTORS. 

Regular meetings of the Directors shall be held on the day previous to the 
regular meetings of the Society, at an hour to be fixed by the President ; 
special meetings of the Directors shall be held in such manner as they may 
appoint ; and a majority shall constitute a quorum for business. 

XV. 

FINANCE COMMITTEE. 

The President shall annually, in the month of January, appoint two Direct- 
ors, who, with the President, shall constitute the Committee on Finance, to 



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examine, from time to time, the books and accounts of the Treasurer; to audit j 
his accounts at the close of the year, and to report upon the expediency of pro- 
posed expenditures of money. 

XVI 

STANDING COMMITTEES. 

The President shall annually, in tiie month of January, appoint four stand- 
ing committees, as follows : — 

Cojnmiftcc o>i the Rooms. 
A committee of five members, to be styled the Committee on the Rooms, 
who shall have charge of all the arrangements of the Rooms, including 
the acceptance or rejection of all articles, (except books, manuscripts, and other 
objects appropriate to the Library), oftered as gifts or loans, the hanging of 
pictures, and the general arrangement of the Society's collections in their de- 
partment ; also, the employment and compensation of custodians. 

Cot)nn{ffcc on Papers. 
A committee of three members, to be stj'led the Committee on Papers, who 
shall have charge of the subject of papers to be read, or other exercises of a like 
nature, at the monthly meetings of the Society. 

Commiffce on Memhership. 
A committee of five or more members, to be styled the Committee on 
Membership, whose duty it shall be to give information in relation to the 
purposes of the Society, and increase its membership. 

Committee on the Library. 

A committee of five members, to be styled the Committee on the Library, 
who shall have charge of all the arrangements of the Library, including the 
acceptance or rejection of all books, manuscripts, and other objects appro- 
priate to the Library, offered as gifts or loans, and the general arrangement 
of the Society's collections in their department. 

These four committees shall perform the duties above set forth, under the 
general supervision of the Directors. 

Vacancies, which may occur in any of these Committees during their term 
of service shall be filled by the President. 

XVIL 

AMENDMENTS TO BY-LAWS. 

Amendments to the By-Laws may be made, at any annual meeting, by the vote 
of two-thirds of the members present and voting. They may also be made by 
the like vote at any regular meeting, provided notice of the same be contained 
in a call for such meeting issued by the Clerk, and sent to every member. 



PROCEEDINGS 



BOSTONIAN SOCIETY 



ANNUAL MEETING, JANUARY \H, ISSf). 




SSiOQ^ 



PROCEEDI N GS 



OF THE 



BOSTON IAN SOCIETY 



Annual Meeting, January 13, 1885. 




§0slon: 

OLD STATE HOUSE. 

PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE SOCIETY 



M.DCCC.LXXXV. 



Press of 
CON ANT & NEW HALL, 

32 Hawlev Stkeet, Boston. 



CONTENTS. 



Illustrations : — 

View of the Old State House, . Frontispiece. 

Seal of the Bostonian Society, . . . Page 23 

Old Swedish Inscription on Bell, ... 27 



I. President's Address, ...... 5 

II. Directors' Report, . . . . . • n 

III. Report of the Treasurer. ..... 14 

IV. Report of the Committee on the Rooms, . 15 
V. Report of the Committee on the Library, . -35 

VI. Report of the Nominating Committee, . . 36 

VII. Accessions to the Society's Collections, . . 38 

VIII. Loan Collection, ....... 64 

IX. Topographical Collection 74 

X. Accessions to the Lif.rary Collections, . . 79 

XI. Officers for 1885, 80 

XII. Roll of Membership, 81 

XIII, By-Laws, ^7 



BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 



FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING. 



Boston, January 13, 1885. 
Pursuant to notice duly issued by the clerk, the fourth annual 
meeting was this day held in the Council Chamber, Old State 
House, at 3 P. M. In the absence of the President on account of 
illness, Mr. Hamilton A. Hill, a member of the Board of Directors, 
by their request occupied the Chair. The records of the last meet- 
ing were read and approved. After the election of new members, 
the President's address was presented as follows: — 

PRESIDENT GUILD'S ADDRESS. 

Fellow Aiembers: 

The swift flight of time once more brings round the annual 
meeting of our Society, and I have to congratulate you on the 
progress it has made the past year, notwithstanding the distract- 
ing feature of a hotly contested political campaign. 

Progress has been made in making the public better acquainted 
with the objects of our Society, and, as it has seemed to me in some 
degree converting the opinion of many who, if not directly hostile 
were, to say the least, indifferent to the work we have in hand, its 
importance and influence. It may be mentioned that the warmest 
enthusiasm that is expressed in our favor, and that this venerable 
and historic building has been preserved and these Memorial Halls 
filled with so many precious mementoes of the past, comes not 
alone from our own citizens, but from those of other cities and 
towns; often from those from far distant points who visit old Bos- 
ton as the Mecca of American history. 



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The past year has been one of great political excitement, and the 
operations connected with a national election necessarily have 
trenched and intruded upon that portion of men's leisure, that is if 
the average American citizen can be said ever to have any leisure, 
which he devotes to the quieter and more restful affairs that belong 
to an institution of this kind. Societies like this are necessarily of 
slow growth. The purely practical and utilitarian portion of the 
community are apt to stand aloof until they feel assured that such 
organization, which they consider to be entirely based on senti- 
ment, has proved itself directly or indirectly of money value, or in 
some degree of direct commercial advantage in the community of 
busy men and women. 

There is much for us to do in the way of demonstrating and 
enforcing the fact that this Society is of commercial as well as sen- 
timental value in its efforts to promote the study of the history of 
Boston and the preservation of its antiquities. I scarcely need 
recall the familiar argument that in the guarding of Boston's anti- 
quities something attractive to many tastes is preserved — memen- 
toes that attract strangers and even delay the departure of those 
who visit Boston purely on business enterprises, to the commercial 
advantage of the city. 

The disturbing elements of the past year have ceased, and it is 
now incumbent upon this Society, more than ever, to make its use- 
fulness and its influence felt. We have already reached a fairly 
self-supporting condition; we have been favored by the reading of 
instructive and interesting papers; we have demonstrated to the 
citizens of the country that there exists in Boston a veneration and 
love for those who procured the rights and blessing that we now 
enjoy, sufficient to keep their memory green and cherish some of 
the visible mementoes they have left behind, and save them from 
the hand of the vandal or spoiler. 

The Society, since the occupancy of these Memorial Halls, has 
thrown open its collection, and even its regular meetings and dis- 
cussions, freely to the public. The comparatively small collection 
that is gathered here has proved to be of a value beyond the grati- 
fication of mere curiosity — it has assisted in verifying historic 
records; in the preparation of works which will be of value and 
interest to the student. 

We are only, as it were, now on the threshold of a career, a cer- 



tain amount of proper and judiciously directed effort can win for 
this society, in the near future, the recognition of the community 
as one of the most useful and important of its kind. 

It is an ungracious task to ask those who contribute gratuitous 
service to do more, but this must be done to keep the Society in its 
proper position before the public, and to attain the desired end above 
alluded to. 

There needs to be an organized effort to still further increase our 
membership, to have historical and other interesting papers pre- 
sented at our meetings by competent and able men, and I may also 
suggest occasional discussions of matters germane to the objects of 
the Society, in order that public interest already excited may not 
only be kept alive but increased. The Society will not go on with- 
out effort and without interruption, and that this is the fact has been 
practically demonstrated during the past year by an occurrence 
which developed such gratifying and increased public sentiment in 
our favor as to render the affair referred to in many respects 
fortunate. 

In May last, the Mutual District Messenger Company, a corpo- 
ration occupying the basement of this building, petitioned to the 
City Government of Boston for leave to place signs on the exterior 
of the premises. This petition was made because of a restriction 
in the lease of all tenants that no signs should be placed upon the 
building, as it had been restored as far as possible to its original 
condition as a monument and memento of the past, in deference 
to a general and decided expression of public opinion. The report 
of "leave to withdraw" by the Committee on Public Buildings, to 
whom the petition had been referred, was refused by the Board of 
Aldermen by a tie vote. 

The Aldermen having thus disposed of the Report of the Com- 
mittee on Public Buildings, assigned further consideration of the 
subject as to whether the request should be granted to the petition- 
ing company to the next meeting of the Board. When that meet- 
ing took place, officers of this Society had taken proper steps, as far 
as lay in their power, to lay before the Board good and sufficient 
reasons why the petition should not be granted. The following 
letter was addressed to the Board by the President: 



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Boston, May 17, 18S4. 
To fJic Jwiiorablc tlic Board of Aldermen of the City of Boston. 

Gentlemen: — I observed by the proceedings of the Board, as reported in 
the newspapers, that the consideration of a petition to place signs on the Old 
State House by one of the tenants of the building is to come before you. 

In behalf of the Bostonian Society, whom I have the honor to represent, said 
Society being tenants of the memorial halls and other apartments in the build- 
ing, I beg leave to most respectfully yet firmly protest against the granting ot 
such petition. 

It being the mutual understanding between lessor and lessees at the time the 
premises were leased, that no signs should be placed upon the exterior, that 
agreement was placed in the leases and mutually agreed to. 

Furthermore, the members of this Society, a list of whom I have the honor 
to transmit to you, I am convinced are very generally opposed to having the 
building again disfigured Avith signs. 

Since the Old State House has been restored to its present condition, I have 
in my official capacity had frequent opportunity of hearing universal expressions 
of approval from all classes of citizens upon the act of the city government in 
so doing. Not only has this approval come from our own citizens, bvit from 
those and from the press of other cities. 

Other weighty reasons can be presented if required, but at this time I think it 
will only be necessary to call the attention of your honorable body to the facts 
above recited. I have the honor to be, gentlemen. 

Yours very respectfully, 

CURTIS GUILD, 

President Bostonian Society. 

The following petition was also presented : 

"The undersigned, citizens of Boston, respectfully remonstrate against the 
city government granting the petition presented by the Mutual District Tele- 
graph Company to place signs on the Old State House, ^'/hen this building 
was restored and its Memorial Halls thrown open to the public, the pledge was 
expressly given that no sign should be affixed to the outside walls. This restric- 
tion was placed in the leases of tenants and we believe understood to be per- 
manent. Your petitioners believe that the placing of signs upon the walls will 
not only disfigure the building, but tend in a large degree to nullify the object 
for which the city expended a large sum of money in restoring it as far as pos- 
sible to its original appearance." 

This petition was signed by ninety-eight of the most prominent 
business men, tax payers and residents of the city, all well known 
as taking an active interest in its commercial prosperity, and its 
opinion was supported by strong expression of the public press. 
The Board however, voted, by a vote of seven to five, to grant the 
request of the Messenger Company. 



After the adjournment, the opponents of the measure in the 
Board moved a reconsideration of the question, and during 
the interval until the next meeting the authorized representatives 
of this Society prepared other petitions and provided themselves 
with expressions of public opinion, which it was hoped might have 
the desired effect ; failing in which a public hearing was to have 
been demanded, which, I have every reason to believe, would have 
thoroughly astonished some people and thoroughly gratified others, 
including members ot this Society. 

Among other measures which occurred to the officers of the 
Society engaged in this work was to address a letter to the peti- 
tioners, the managers of the Mutual District Messenger Co.. ap- 
pealing to their patriotism in lending their aid to preserve this old 
relic of Revolutionary times, and also to forego their desire in 
deference to the decided expression of public opinion it had elicited. 
We were fortunate in finding in this company a spirit of fairness 
and courtesy which corporations are not generally supposed to exer- 
cise when desiring to carry out a cherished object, for in response 
to our appeal, we were privately assured through the company's 
representatives that the petition would be withdrawn, which was 
done in a communication at the next meeting of the Board of 
Aldermen. 

The history of this movement reveals to us the fact that notwith- 
standing the increase of opinion in favor of retaining a few of those 
landmarks that render Boston famous all over the world, opponents 
will continue to exist and utilitarians to press the question — what 
is all this worth ? They ask it of Boston Common, they asked it 
when it was proposed to introduce a supply of water into Boston 
and opposed that measure, it is asked by them of public parks, free 
concerts, the opening of the public museums and libraries to the 
laboring man on Sunday. 

Free museums, public parks, public libraries, historic buildings 
like Faneuil Hall, the Old South, and the Old State House, their 
advantages and their privileges belong to the people. It is an attack 
on the rights of the people when a corporation petitions to cut oft' 
a portion of Boston Common ; it is an attack on the rights of the 
people when a certain sect proposes to shut up free museums and 
public libraries on Sunday ; it is an attack on the rights of the peo- 
ple to prevent part of the territory of a great and increasing me- 



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tropolis being reserved for a place of heathful recreation, and 
moreover it is an attack on the rights of the people to attempt, in 
opposition to their desire, to level with the dust the few great 
reminders of the early struggles of this country for independence, 
so that only the legend remains, to perpetuate their memory. 

The opportunity now enjoyed by every individual of any age, sect 
or nationality, to visit freely these monuments of the past and 
profit by the lesson which the thoughts suggested by them convey, 
should be sacredly guarded and preserved, for it is not alone to its 
own citizens, but to the whole nation, that the city of Boston is 
accountable for the preservation of these mementoes, known and 
venerated by patriotic citizens throughout the country. 

That this feeling prevails was evinced within a year or two at 
St. Louis, where a distinguished citizen of that place expressed, in 
presence of several well-known Boston merchants, his indignation, 
which was endorsed by several of his fellow citizens, that any 
proposition to remove the Old State House or Old South Church 
could for a moment be listened to in Boston, and if it were, he 
expressed the desire to be afforded opportunity to raise a sum by 
subscription in St. Louis sufficient to purchase the old materials 
and re-erect the buildings in that city as cherished mementoes of 
our country's history. 

But as I have remarked, public opinion has strengthened in favor 
of our objects, and it is now incumbent upon us to continually show 
by our acts that we are worthy of such support, and to this end I 
desire to impress upon the members of the Society the value of the 
effort of each individual in the methods that have been mentioned, 
thereby sustaining those whom you honor as your official represen- 
tatives in faithfully carrying out the objects of the Society. 

The Society now depends upon its membership fees for its run- 
ning expenses, but I trust it is not too ambitious a hope to express 
that in the near future a fund may be created by gentlemen of means 
who sympathize with the objects of the institution which will place 
it upon so solid a foundation as not to depend entirely on its pres- 
ent means of support. 

I shall leave to the Board of Directors the task of presenting to 
you the transactions of the Society in detail and its necrology dur- 
ing the past year. The Treasurer, Committee on the Rooms, and 
Librarian will add to these their reports in our pamphlet of annual 



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proceedings, which will be distributed to members as soon after the 
annual meeting as is possible to prepare it. 

It is a matter of regret that our present efficient Clerk, Mr. J. M. 
Hubbard, finds that other engagements will compel him to resign 
his present position, the duties of which he has so promptly and 
efficiently performed and for which the Society's grateful acknowl- 
edgments are due to him. 

I improve the present opportunity to thank the Directors and 
officers, as well as the members of the Society, for the courtesy and 
kindness I have experienced at their hands, and not only to join 
with them in the best wishes for the future but to cordially as a 
fellow member unite with them in putting forth all efforts possible 
to advance the objects for which the institution was founded. 

The annual report of the Board of Directors was then presented, 
as follows : — 

THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS. 

The Directors respectfully report as follows : — 

Since the last annual meeting, a report of which has been pub- 
lished and distributed, the progress of the Society has been gener- 
ally satisfactory, and the monthly meetings have been interesting 
and largely attended. 

Historical papers and biographical addresses have been presented 
to the Society as follows : — 

By Rev. R. C. Waterston, on Miss Eliza Susan Quincy, a bene- 
factor to the Society, and one who took a deep interest in its well- 
fare, and by Mr. John T. Prince, "A series of personal recollections 
of our city seventy years ago," on February 12. 

By Rev. Charles W. Baird, D.D., of Rye, N.Y., on the "Hugue- 
nots of Boston," on April 8. 

By Mr. Charles K. Dillaway, on Dr. Nathaniel Shepherd Prentiss, 
and by Mr. Samuel H. Russell, on Mr. Thomas Gold Appleton, 
on May 13. 

By Mr. Hamilton A. Hill, on Mr. Harvey D. Parker, and by 
the President, Mr. Curtis Guild, on "The Boston newspaper of 
fifty years ago," on June 10. 

By Mr. James B. Gardner, on "The New England Guards," on 
October 14. 



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By E. L. Bynner, Esq., on "Social life in Colonial and Provincial 
Times," on November ii, and by Mr. J. M. Hubbard, on "The 
first City of Boston Election, April ii, 1822," on December 9. 

In the first part of the year, a desire was expressed by some of 
the tenants to have the restriction in the lease removed, so that 
signs might be placed on the exterior of this building, but after 
some discussion and carefid reconsideration, wiser counsels pre- 
vailed, and the petition was withdrawn. 

The whole number of names added to the rolls of the Society 
during the past year is ...... . 149 

Died, 12 

Whole number of members, ...... 461 

The additions during the past year by gift and loan to the 
Society's collections have been numerous, interesting and valuable, 
regarding which detailed report will be made by the duly con- 
stituted authorities upon this subject. 

In conclusion, we regret to inform you, that Mr. James M. Hub- 
bard to-day retires from the position of Clerk and Treasurer. He 
has discharged the duties which have devolved upon him during 
the past year so acceptably, that the Directors feel, in expressing 
their regret that he cannot be longer induced to retain these 
offices, they express the general sentiment of the members of 
the Society. 

Necrology for 1884. 

[Tlie figures at the left indicate the year of admission to the Society.] 

1882. Alanson Bigelow, of Boston. Born in Westminster, Mass., 
May 20, 1809; died in Boston, February 29, 1884. 

1882. Ebenezer Collamore, of Boston. Born in Scituate, Mass., 
September 5, 1809 ; died in Boston, March 5, 1884. 

1881. Rev. Dorus Clarke, D. D., of Boston. Born in West Hamp. 

ton, Mass., January 2, 1797; died in Boston, March 8, 
1884. 

1882. William Franklin Temple, of Boston. Born in Dorchester, 

Mass., April 8, 1810; Died in Boston, ?darch 23, 1884. 
1884. Thomas Gold Appleton, of Boston. Born in Boston, March 
31, 1812; died in New York, N. Y., April 17, 1884. 



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1 882. Lemuel Shaw, of Boston. Born in Boston, July 15, 1828 ; 
died in Boston, May 6, 1884. 

1882. Harvey Drury Parker, of Boston. Born in Temple, Me., 
May 10, 1805 ; died in Boston, May 31, 1884. 

1884. John Lowell Gardner, of Brookline. Born in Boston, Feb- 
ruary 8, 1804; died in Brookline, Mass., July 23, 1884. 

1882. John Homer Dix, of Boston. Born in Newton, Mass., 1813; 
died at Appledore, Isles of Shoals, N.H., August 25, 
1884. 

1884. Francis Brown Hayes, of Boston. Born in South Berwick, 
Me., October 12, 1819; died in Lexington, Mass., Sep- 
tember 20, 1884. 

1882. William Brandt Storer, of Cambridge. Born in Boston, 
April 2, 1838; Died in Cambridge, Mass., October 14, 
1884. 

1884. Francis Jaques, of Boston. Born in Charlestown, Mass., 
March 5, 1828 ; died in Boston, December 17, 1884. 

All of which is respectfully submitted, 

CURTIS GUILD, 
THOMAS C. AMORY, 
WILLIAM S. APPLETON, 
WILLIAM. H. BALDWIN, 
JOHN T. HASSAM, 
HAMILTON A. HILL, 
THOMAS MINNS, 
SAMUEL H. RUSSELL, 
WILLIAM H. WHITMORE, 

Dircctois. 



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The Treasurer then presented his annual report, as follows : — 
TREASURER'S REPORT. 



Receipts. 

Balance in Bank, January I, 1S84 

Life Memberships ... . . 

Admission Fees and Assessments 

Intei-est on deposit in N. E. Trust Co., 

Sales of Historical Sketch of Old State House, 

Sales of Bowen Pamphlet, 



$1,645 71 

350 00 

2,020 00 

61 50 

21 50 

6 GO 

$4,104 71 



Expenditures. 



City Rent .... 

Compensation of Custodians 

Printing 

Postage 

Clerical Work 

Frames . 

Stationery 

Pictures, Antiquities, etc. 

Labor, Expressing, etc. 

Office Furniture, Case, etc 



Balance 



$100 00 

492 GO 

607 GO 
86 So 

43 52 

96 80 

43 10 

126 70 

142 G5 

159 13 

$1,897 10 

2,207 61 

$4,104 71 



JAMES M. HUBBARD, Treasurer. 



Boston, January 12, 18S5. 

The undersigned have examined the Treasurer's account to January ist, 1885. 
and find the same to be correctly cast and properly vouched, and showing a bal- 
ance on hand ot Twenty-two hundred and seven (2207) dollars and sixty-one 
(6i) cents, in the New England Trust Company. 



SAMUEL H. RUSSELL, 
THOMAS MINNS, 



Finance Committee. 



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Mr. James Rindge Stanwood then presented the second annual 
report of the Committee on the Rooms, as follows : — 

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE ROOMS. 

Mr. Chairman : — 

The Committee on the Rooms has the honor to offer the follow- 
ing report to the Bostonian Society, convened at the annual 
meeting : 

ADVANCEMENT OF THE SOCIETY'S OBJECTS. 

During the year that has elapsed since your committee submitted 
its last annual report, much of interest has transpired in the 
departments which have been entrusted to our care. We note with 
pleasure the steady growth in the community of a popular senti- 
ment sympathetic with our objects, which, although plainly mani- 
fest from the inception of our work, has nevertheless exhibited a 
marked and most satisfactory increase within the last twelve 
months. 

Your committee is gratified to be able to announce a record of 
interesting and valuable additions to the Society's collections in 
these halls. Abundant evidence of the manner in which we have 
been favored in this direction, will be found in the descriptive list 
which we have thought fit to annex to this report, wherein the 
various articles which have been placed in our hands are duly noted. 

OIL PAINTINGS OF INTEREST. 

Among the objects of value which have been placed in its posses- 
sion, your committee specially calls attention to an excellent oil 
portrait of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Stillman, well known as one 
of the most powerful preachers of the Revolutionary period, and 
the worthy pastor of the First Baptist Church in Boston, from 1765 
to 1807.* It is executed by Johnson, and is said to be an excel- 
lent likeness of this sturdy divine, who, by tongue and pen, bore so 
active a part in the scenes preceding and immediately subsequent 



* The Rev. Samuel Stillman, D. D., one of the most eloquent preachers of the Revolution. He was 
settled as pastor of the First Baptist Church, January 9, 1765, succeeding the Rev. Jeremiah Condy, and 
held that office until his decease, which occurred March 12, 1S07. 



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to the eventful struggle which culminated in American Independ- 
ence. For this most acceptable accession, we are indebted to the 
liberality of the Rev. Joseph Banvard, D.D., formerly of Neponset, 
but now of Kansas City, Missouri, to whom our thanks are likewise 
given for an additional portrait, — that of the late Nathaniel Shep- 
herd Prentiss, M. D., * an estimable citizen of Roxbury, and for 
thirty years, Town Clerk of that place. A very good likeness of 
George Reed, the well-known Constable of Boston during the 
entire period between 1809 and 1839, '^vith an intermission of only 
two years, familiarly known to Bostonians of the time as an exceed- 
ingly capable and zealous police ofBcial, the terror of evil doers, has 
been placed in our custody by Mr. Gustavus Andrews, of Lynn, 
while a fine painting, executed by DeGrailly, exhibiting a very 
effective view of Boston, from the Chelsea Naval Hospital, has 
been contributed to the Loan Collection by Mr. William H. Whit- 
more. Mr. Robert Cary Stearns has likewise placed in this depart- 
ment, a painting of much historical interest, representing the well- 
known Tea Party f punch-bowl, from which some of the zealous 
patriots composing the "Long Room Club," | who, in the disguise 
of Indians, boarded the ships of the East India Company, lying at 
Griffin's Wharf, upon the evening of December 16, 1773, and threw 
the detested tea into the waters of Boston Harbor, drank success 
to their daring undertaking, at their place of assembly, over the 



* Nathaniel Shepherd Prentiss, M.D., was born in Cambridge, August 7, 1766, and graduated at Har- 
vard College, in 1787. He settled in 17S9, in INIarlboro, acquiring there an extensive practice, but 
removed in iSoi, to Roxbury, where he resided for over fifty years, and held many positions of respon- 
sibility and trust. He died November 7, 1853, at the residence of his son-in-law, the Rev. Joseph Ban. 
yard, D.D., in Cambridge, in his eighty-eighth year. 

t Upon the evening of December 16, 1773, three hundred and forty-two chests of tea, belonging to the 
East India Company, which had arrived at Boston by the ships Dartmouth and Eleanor, and the brig 
Beaver, lying at Griffin's Wharf, were broken open and thrown into the waters of Boston Harbor. This 
was done by citizens of Boston, to prevent the tea from being duly entered at the Custom House, and the 
duty paid thereon. Though an act of lawless violence, the spirit of liberty which is supposed to have 
dictated it, and the success which subsequently attended the revolutionary struggles of our fathers, in 
which this is allowed to hold a place, have hallowed the deed in the memory of the nation. The site of 
Griffin's Wharf is now occupied by Liverpool Wharf. 

I The destruction of the tea is said to have been planned in the "Long Room,'' which was situated in 
the second story of the building occupied by the Boston Gazette and Country Jourjial, at the corner of 
Queen (now Court) Street, and Basset's Alley, (the present Franklin Avenue.) In the back of the oflice, 
some of the "Tea Party,"it is said, assumed their Indian disguise upon the evening of December 16, 1773. 
Among the members of the "Long Room Club," as those who met here were styled, were Samuel 
Adams, Hancock, Warren, Otis, Church, Roy.al Tyler, Paul Revere, Thomas Fleet, John Winthrop, 
William Montineux, and Thomas Melvill. The " Long Room Club," like the well-known "North End 
Caucus," was a local organization, owning allegiance to the "Sons of Liberty." Tea Leaves. 



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printing-office of his ancestor, Benjamin Edes, * before sallying 
forth upon their errand of destruction. A fine picture, delineated 
in oil colors upon one of the panels from the wainscotting of the 
mansion of John Hancock, after the painting by Sully, represent- 
ing the Beacon Hill Monument, erected in 1790, and taken down 
in 181 1, which has been placed temporarily in our care, through 
the courtesy of Mrs. T. Quincy Browne, is also deserving of special 
mention. 

STEEL AND COPPER-PLATE ENGRAVINGS. 

During the year, the Society has been favored by most accepta- 
ble additions to its collection of steel and copper-plate engravings, 
to the enlargement of which department your committee is espec- 
ially desirous of calling the attention of our members, as it wishes 
to accumulate as many prints of this class as possible, which may 
in any way relate to the history of our city. Under this head, we 
are glad to report, amongst the valuable accessions, portraits of the 
late Rev. Charles Lowell, D.D., of the Hon. Richard Frothingham, 
and of Hon. John P. Healy, from Grenville H. Norcross, Esq.; 
portraits of the late John Lothrop Motley, the historian, of Mr, 
Thomas Gold Appleton, and several views of local interest, from 
Captain Nathan Appleton ; and a portrait of the Rev. Hosea 
Ballou, pastor of the Second Universalist Society, upon School 
Street, from 1817 to 1852, from Mr. Joshua H. Pitman. We are 
likewise indebted to Mr. John P. Reed, for portraits of the late 
Rev.Charles Cleveland, Winslow Lewis, and George B. Doane, M.D., 
while from Mr. William H. Whitmore we have received a proof 
impression from a steel-plate, engraved by the American Bank Note 
Company, in 1883, of a view representing the east end of the Old 
State House, which, it is claimed, is the most elaborately executed 
engraving of this building which has been produced up to the 
present time. 

LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTS. 

The Society's collection of lithographic prints and wood-engrav- 
ings has been favored with a number of accessions, to which your 
committee is gratified to call attention. We feel that we are justi- 

* Benjamin Edes, journalist, senior partner of the firm of Edes and Gill, publishers of the Bosten 
Gazette and Country Journal. He was born in Charlestown, October 14, 1732; and died in Boston, 
December 11, 1803. 



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fied in emphasizing in the strongest manner the demand of this 
department for the fullest possible representation, and we take 
advantage of this opportunity to place its claims before the Society. 
Many exceedingly valuable sketches and original drawings, of var- 
ious buildings and localities in this city, as they formerly existed, 
have fortunately been preserved for the future by the faithful, 
painstaking work of the Pendletons,* and their successors in 
the lithographic art. Examples of many of these subjects are now 
scarce, and we earnestly request our fellow-members, as well as all 
others in this community interested in forwarding the objects of 
the Society, to aid us in enriching this collection by additions of 
any appropriate specimens of this class of drawings which may 
yet remain unrepresented here. 

Your committee makes special mention, among those who have 
kindly contributed views and portraits to this department, of a like- 
ness of the Rev. John Murray, the founder of the Universalist de- 
nomination in America, an excellent specimen of Pendleton's work, 
from Mr. Samuel Bachelder, of Chelsea ; of a portrait by the same 
artist, of the Rev. Samuel Barrett, from Mrs. Olive S. Plympton; a 
fine view of the water-front of Boston, viewed from East Boston, 
from Mr. W. B. Sears ; an example of Pendleton's work, represent- 
ing the old Hanover Church,! so called, built for and occupied by 
the Rev. Lyman Beecher, D. D., from Mrs. Luther Barnes; a por- 
trait of Daniel Webster, executed in 1831, from Mr. Joseph Simes, 



•■ To William S. and John Pendleton belongs the credit of being the pioneers of the Lithographic art 
in Boston, in the years 1S25-26. At this time, William S. Pendleton was engaged as a copper-plate 
printer, in partnership with Abel Bowen, but in 1826 the connection was dissolved, and the brothers Pen- 
dleton associated themselves as copper-plate and lithographic printers, their first location being upon Har- 
vard Place, a few doors from Washington Street. In 1S30 the Senefelder Lithographic Company was 
established, and the same year the brothers moved to a site in Graphic Court, Washington Street, opposite 
the head of Franklin Street. Tn 1836, William S. Pendleton was located at 20S Washington Street, and 
in 1837 he left Boston, being succeeded in his business by Thomas Moore. Having, through fortunate 
investments, acquired a handsome property, he retired from active business, and took up his residence 
successively at New Brighton, on Staten Island, and at St. Augustine, Florida. He was born in 1795, in 
New York, and was the son of William Pendleton, a native of England. He died in Boston, on Thurs- 
day, January 23, 1879, and was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in New York City, upon the following 
Saturday, January 25. 

t This Society was organized July 18, 1825. Their church edifice, which was of stone, was built in 1S26, 
dedicated March ist of that year, and destroyed by fire in February, 1S30. The Society rebuilt upon a 
site in Bowdoin Street. The Rev. Lyman Beecher was settled as pastor, March 22, 1826, and held office 
until his resignation, which was offered September 26, 1832. The structure was subsequently occupied by 
the Church of the Advent, (Rev, William Croswell, D. D.,) and at the present time is known as the Mis- 
sion Church of St. John the Evangelist. 



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of South Plymouth ; and a fine view of the old Maverick House, * 
at East Boston, erected in the year 1835, from Mr. William W. 
Wheildon, of Concord. In the line of wood-engravings, we note a 
specially interesting view, representing the Boston Type Foundry, 
upon Salem Street, as it existed in 1823, adjacent to the historic 
Christ Church, which is also represented in the cut, from Mr. John 
M. Eaton. Under this head we are also pleased to acknowledge 
the receipt of three views of different edifices built and occupied 
by the First Church in Boston, with portraits of several of its 
former pastors, from Mr. Arthur B. Ellis, of this city. 

The wonderful progress made in Lithography in recent years, 
and the degree of perfection which has been achieved in the science 
of stone printing, evidenced by the results now readily accom- 
plished by the leading houses making a specialty of work of this 
description, is certainly remarkable, in comparison with the 
period, — by no means remote, at which it was brought to the atten- 
tion of the public. A glance backward to the early days of its his- 
tory, shows that the distinction of being the place of the original 
introduction of the art into America, belongs to the city of Phila- 
delphia. In the pages of the Analcctic Magazine, X\\q.xq. published, 
in the number for July, 1819, is found an impression of an original 
drawing, which is probably the earliest specimen of work of this 
class, executed upon this side of the Atlantic. Inasmuch as this 
reference is matter of great historical importance, we quote from 
the above authority as follows : 

"In this number we present our readers with a specimen of 
American Lithography. The design and execution from beginning 
to end, — from the drawing to the impression inclusive, is by Mr. B. 
Otis, who, following the suggestions of Judge Cooper and Dr. 
Brown, of Alabama, has, by means of their hints, and his own more 
successful improvements, produced the specimen now submitted. 
The drawing was made on a stone from Munich, presented to the 
American Philosophical Society, by Mr. Thomas Dobson, of this 
city, but the art has been successfully tried on specimens of stone 



* The first Maverick House was erected by an organization of citizens known as the "Maverick House 
Company," composed of Messrs. Stephen Locke, Guy C. Haynes, Joseph Ripley, Gardner Greenleaf 
and Asa Lewis. It was formally opened May 2/, 1S35, which date also marks the commencement of reg- 
ular ferry-boat communication between the Island and the city, by the boats "East Boston" and "Mav- 
erick." The hotel was placed in charge of Major Jabez W. Barton, December 3, 1835, ^ho remained 
connected with it until April i, i.Zi,i. ~ Sumtier^ s History of East Bostotiyp. 475. 



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from Frankfort, in Kentucky, procured by Judge Cooper, Dr. 
Brown and Mr. Clifford, — from Doe Run, in Kentucky, furnished 
by Dr. Blight, — from a quarry about two miles from Maytown, Lan- 
caster County, and also on some pieces of white marble from White 
Marsh, commonly found at the stone-cutters' in this city. Dr. 
Brown, in particular, has felt great interest in the progress of this 
trial, and has written to various places in the Western country for 
pieces of stone, similar as may be to the stone of Munich, which 
are now upon the road, so that the next print will probably be 
from a limestone of our own country." 

HELIOTYPE AND PHOTOGRAPHIC REPRODUCTIONS. 

Your committee records with gratification, a liberal addition to 
the department of reproductions, by heliotype and photographic 
process, of original portraits, and historical buildings and localities 
in this city. Among those who have contributed articles of this 
class, we especially mention Mr. William Lloyd Garrison, junior, 
and Mr. Thomas C. DeCarteret, * who have given to the Society 
some valuable photographs of large size, exhibiting different streets 
and buildings in this city as they appeared between the years 
1850 to i860. As the face of these localities has since been 
materially transformed, while in most cases all traces of their former 
appearance have vanished, the importance of such representations 
of old Boston cannot be over-estimated. Among other views of 
a kindred nature, we mention fine specimens of the old Ticknor 



* One of the views given by Mr. DeCarteret shows the old building which formerly stood upon Washing- 
ton, at the south-west corner of Harvard Place, near the head of Milk Street, taken down about 1870, 
at which time it was occupied by the Chelsea Dye House. Concerning this building, Mr. DeCarteret 
furnishes the following information, taken from a newspaper article printed in the year i860 : 

"The Oldest Building in Boston. The ancient structure on Washington Street, opposite Milk 
Street, was built in the year 1656, and is consequently two hundred and four years old. It was erected 
twenty-four years before the feather store in Dock Square, which has often been called the oldest 
structure in Boston. The timber of which the old building opposite the Old South Church^is built, 
is of white oak, which was cut within a short distance of that spot, and is still sound. The house 
was occupied during the administration of the Royal Governor Hutchinson by his Secretary of State, 
and for many years the elite of Boston were its welcome guests. Washington has honored the mansion 
with his presence, and dined as the guest of the family who occupied it during the Revolution; while 
almost the last time that the lamented Warren was entertained in Boston before the Battle of Bunker 
Hill, it was in this venerable building. After the Revolution, it became noted as the most fashionable 
dancing hall in Boston. The Province House, on the next estate south of the above, the walls of which 
are standing, was built in the year 1679. " 

It was evidently an ancient buildine, but seme antiquaries expressed a doubt, when this aiticle 
appeared, whether it was built so early. 



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mansion, * at the corner of Beacon and Park Streets, from Miss 
Anna E. Ticknor, and Messrs. Cabot and Chandler; a number of 
views of Boston streets, taken after the great fire of Nov. 9-10, 
1872, from Mr. John P. Reed, and Captain Nathan Appleton ; and 
two admirable views of the stone building formerly numbered 50 
and 52 State Street, removed in 1884, from the Massachusetts Hos- 
pital Life Insurance Company. Mr. Robert W. Hooper has likewise 
given to the Society an interesting view of the old brick building 
once known as the King's Head Tavern, said to have been erected 
in the reign of Charles the First, in the year 1660, destroyed by fire 
in 1691, and subsequently rebuilt, which was taken down in 1870. 
We have also to report the receipt, from Mr. Justin Winsor, of a 
reproduction in fac-simile of the very valuable map of New Eng- 
land as known in 1634, drawn in pen and ink, perhaps by Gov. 
Winthrop, and discovered by H. F. Waters, during the past year, 
among the manuscripts in the British Museum. Mr. Henry J. Par- 
ker has given us a series of seven large views of buildings formerly 
occupied by the Masonic Fraternity in this city, while we are 
also indebted to Mr. Stephen Grant Deblois, for a portrait of 
the late Moses Grant ; f to Edward J. Forster, M, D., for a 
portrait of His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Governor of the Prov- 
ince of Massachusetts-Bay, from 1730 to 1741 ; while we acknowl- 
edge further gifts of historical interest from Mr. Samuel E. Saw- 
yer, of Gloucester ; Mr. William W. Wheildon, of Concord, J. 
Foster Bush, M.D., Mr. J. W. Black, Rear Admiral George Henry 
Preble, U.S.N. , and Edward W. West, of New York City. 



* Miss Anna E. Ticknor kindly furnishes the following note relative to this subject : "In the view of 
the building at the head of Park Street, three-fifths of the front, on the right of the spectator, including 
the porch, represent the house occupied since 1829 by Mr. George Ticknor and his family. It was first 
inhabited by Dr. Jeffries; then by Governor Christopher Gore; and later still by Mr. Andrew Ritchie. 
The other part, having its entrance on Beacon Street, was once the residence of Mr. Samuel Dexter; was 
used at one time as a club-house, at another time as a boarding house ; and was taken for the use of Gen- 
eral Lafayette, during his visit to Boston in 1824. The whole building was erected for his own residence 
by Mr. Thomas Amory, about 1S06, but it was never occupied as one house, Mr. Amory having failed in 
business before it was ready for habitation." 

t Deacon Moses Grant, born July 29, 17S5; died July 23, 1S61. He was a prominent Boston merchant, 
and for a long period of years the occupant of many positions of public trust. Elected in 1835 to the 
Common Council, he remained a member of that body until 1842, when he entered the Board of Alder- 
men, where he served until 1S51. He took agreat interest in the welfare of the young, and was a Director 
for thirty years of the Boston Asvlum and Farm School for Indigent Boys, at Thompson's Island, Boston 
Harbor. 



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SKETCHES AND WATER COLOR VIEWS. 

In this department, your committee desires to call special atten- 
tion to an admirable water-color drawing of the ancient structure 
on South Street, Boston, England, known by the name of Shod- 
friars Hall. It is supposed to have been erected by Flemish mer- 
chants resident in Boston at an early period, and is of record as one 
of the oldest buildings in the borough. This sketch is given 
by our fellow-member, Mr. Alexander Moseley, and was executed 
expressly for us through his order, when visiting Lincolnshire dur- 
ing the past year. We will add that the gift is supplemented with 
several interesting photographic views, exhibiting English Boston 
as it existed one hundred and thirty-five years ago, and as it is 
to-day. The earlier view is a reproduction of a very rare copper- 
plate engraving, entitled : "The South-East View of Boston, in the 
County of Lincoln, (1750), dedicated to the Mayor and Corpora- 
tion, by Nathan Drake." While the greater part of this most inter- 
esting reproduction is remarkably clear, we regret that the lower 
margin is so shaded as to prevent the signature of the engraver 
from being deciphered. The series of views, which are four in num- 
ber, enclosed in one frame, contains two views of the water-side 
of Boston, representing its appearance at an early period, and as it 
looks at the present time. The above memorials of the old Eng- 
lish town constitute an important addition to the valuable collec- 
tion received in 1883, from the Mayor and Corporation of the Bor- 
ough, and have been placed appropriately upon the wall beside it. 

We accord honorable mention here to some original architect- 
ural drawings in India ink, given to the Society by its President, Mr. 
Curtis Guild. These represent, respectively, the Tremont, Revere, 
and American Houses, and are to be highly esteemed as exhibiting 
a very reliable view of those hostelries from the most competent 
authority. The view of the Tremont House, '\j-anies Kidder, 
del), displays the cupola upon the roof, which was never 
erected, and yet bears across its face the original lines from which 
the reduction was undoubtedly made for the well-known copper- 
plate print,* which appears as the frontispiece to the volume pub- 
lished by Gray and Bowen in 1830,! descriptive of that edifice. 

* View of TreiHont House, Isaiah Rogers, Architect. Drawn hy James Kidder. Engraved by 
Annin Gf Smith. 

t A Descriptiott of Tremont House, with Architectural UlustratioJis, Bosto7t: Published by Gray and 
Bowen, MDCCCXXX. 



^ml af the ;^0Stani(TO J)i3cictij. 




Anns, — I'er jxUe, the dexter, sable, three ducal coronets in 
pale or ; the sinistei", azui-e, on the sea an ancient ship ar,:^^ent, on 
the main-sail in an escutcheon \-oi(led sable, the figures 1630 of 
the last ; on a chief ari^ent a tri-mountam vert. 

Iccjcurt.— .svr;//./, /'J/ /^osT(\\7E.vs/s soc/irri ris 

INS'rrn'7\E BOSTON/.E I.X XOI'A AXCLJA i88i. 
The spaces diapered. 



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An example of this latter view, together with Sabnoii s painting, 
is shown in the Representatives' Hall of this building. 

THE CORPORATE SEAL OF THE SOCIETY. 

We are gratified in recording among the accessions of the past 
year, the receipt from our fellow-member, Mr. John Coffin Jones 
l3rown, of the original inclia-ink drawing, executed by him, and 
offered to the Bostonian Society as a design for its Corporate Seal. 
Reference to the records exhibits the fact, that the design was 
formally adopted upon the thirteenth of February, 1883, as the 
seal of the Society, since which time, it has been in use. A letter 
which accompanied the drawing, contains some interesting state- 
ments relative to the reasons which influenced the conception of 
the design, and these we have thought it desirable to incorporate 
here. 

In designing the seal, it was the aim of the author : 

First, to recognize the parentage from which our city derived its 
name ; which was effected by taking the Arms of the Corporation of 
Boston, in England, which were allowed and confirmed by Robert 
Cook, Clarencieux, in 1568 ;* "Sable, three ducal coronets in pale, 
Or." 

Second, to indicate the date and mode of departure of our early 
settlers : for this purpose the "ancient ship" is copied from The 
Admiralty Seal of Old Boston, which used to be attached to the 
proceedings of the Admiralty Court there. The date of 1630 is 
substituted in place of the three crowns, in an escutcheon on its 
mainsail. 

Third, to give the characteristic feature of their nezv home, as it 
impressed the vision of our forefathers, and has become per- 
manently fixed in historical memory, — the tri-mountain. 

An exemplification of the seal, in the heraldic colors, is exhibited 
in the illustration on the adjoining page. 

MEMORIALS OF THE NEW ENGLAND GUARDS. 

Prominent among the articles of interest and value which have 
been placed in the possession of the Society since its last annual 
meeting, are the very acceptable memorials of the New England 

* See Thompson^ s History and Antiquities 0/ Boston, Lincolnshire, /. 296. 



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Guards, * — that well-known representative Boston organization, 
of the early days of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. The 
gift is made by the New England Guards Association, through our 
fellow-members. Captain J. Putnam Bradlee and Colonel William 
Vincent Hutchings, the trustees of the Company property. These 
relics consist of four silken ensigns formerly borne by the corps, 
two of which are State, one National, and the last a flag bearing 
upon its respective sides the State arms of Massachusetts and New 
York, which was given to the Company upon the occasion of its 
first visit to New York City, in 1844; fa guidon of blue silk, inscribed: 
"N. E. G. 1812;" its records ; |the beautifully wrought silver eagle, 
made in France especially for the elegant standard § presented to 
the Company, upon November 19, 18 12, upon the occasion of its 
first uniformed parade, || by General Arnold Welles ; a silver- 
mounted mahogany ballot-box, given by Benjamin T. Pick man, 
Ensign Commandant, in 1814; a medal owned by the Company ; 
an officers' mess-chest of mahogany, owned and used by Ensign 
Pickman in 1814, furnished with articles of camp equipage; a can- 
teen, a knapsack, and the two historic six-pound brass field-pieces, 
with which the Bostonians of half a century ago were familiar. 
These cannon, which for a long period have been disused, 
have been given the necessary attention, and are now in ex- 

* The official existence of the New England Guards dates from September 22, 1812. Upon that date 
"the persons named in the petition of Lemuel Blake and others, associated for the purpose of forming a 
Company of Light Infantry," met at Concert Hall, at six o'clock, P. M., in accordance with Brigade 
Orders, signed by Bryant P. Tilden, for the election of officers. The choice was as follows, by a unani- 
mous vote : — Samuel Swett, Esq., Captain; George Sullivan, Esq., Lieutenant; Mr. Lemuel Blake, 
Ensign. The Constitution of "The Company of New England Guards" was adopted September 25, 1S12. 

t New York City, Aug. 2, 1S44. After spending half an hour in Castle Garden, the Company pro- 
ceeded to the Battery, where, in line, and surrounded by an innumerable crowd, they were addressed by 
Col. Sullivan, who, in the name of the ex-members of the corps in the city of New York, presented to 
them a standard of great beauty. N . E. G. Records, vol. iv. 

+ Four volumes of the records of the earlier part of the company's history and one of the N. E. G. 
Association have been turned over to the Society; the remainder were destroyed in the great fire of Nov. 
g-io, 1872. 

§ Thursday , November 19, 1S12. The Company met at Faneuil Hall, at nine and a half o'clock, A.M., 
parading fifty-six members and the officers, in full uniform. At eleven and a half o'clock, the line of 
march was taken for the residence of General Arnold Welles, in Park Place, where the Guards were 
presented with an elegant standard. — N. E. G. Records, vol. i. 

For a remarkable instance of longevity in this corps, see A'ew. Eng. Hist, and Gen. Register, vol. 
XIII /. 364; vol.'KXVU, p. 317. 

II The following extract from the Company's Constitution is given : Art. 4. The uniform of the Com- 
pany shall be as follows, viz: "a plain dark-blue coat, double breasted, with gilt buttons; white waist- 
coat ; white pantaloons ; blue cloth pantaloons; half-boots, with black tassels ; round hat, with a black 
leather cockade, a yellow eagle in the centre, and a gold loop extending down to the band; a black silk 
stock; the sashes and badges of the non-commissioned officers shall be worn under the direction of the 
officers. The hats of the commissioned officers shall be the usual military hats without plumes." — A''. E. 
G, Records, vol. i. 



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cellent condition. Their weight is about seven hundred pounds 
apiece when dismounted, while each gun with its carriage, rep- 
resents a total weight of about twelve hundred pounds. Upon the 
breech of these pieces is exhibited a representation, in relief, of the 
Indian figure borne upon the shield of the Commonwealth, with an 
engraved inscription, as follows : "Cast and Mounted by Order of 
the Board of War, for the New England Guards, 1814." The car- 
riages upon which these guns rest are constructed of white pasture 
oak, and in their shape differ materially from the pattern now in 
use for ordnance of this description. The guns are identified, in 
the memories of early members of the corps, with many interest- 
ing associations. They mark the period when the duties of the 
organization, although described in the preamble of its Constitu- 
tion as those of "a Company of Light Infantry," were, in part at 
least, those of Artillery, to which branch of service it appeared, 
in the early years of its existence, to especially incline. Ample 
testimony is afforded by the records to the fact that the guns thus 
granted by the Government were faithfully exercised by the corps 
in persevering efforts to perfect itself in target practice, during 
frequent tours of military duty, a custom which appears to have 
been measurably adhered to in subsequent years, during its memor- 
able encampments at Woburn, and at Savin Hill. At the latter 
place, in the year 1824, it had the honor of welcoming, as its dis- 
tinguished guest. General Lafayette, then making his last visit to 
America, who, escorted by Governor Eustis, paid a visit to the 
camp.* 

In connection with this subject, we will state, that a painting in 
oil, executed upon a mahogany panel, representing the Guards in 
camp at Savin Hill, in the year 18 19, under the command of Cap- 
tain George W. Lyman, has been given to us by Captain J. Putnam 
Bradlee,! the last surviving commander of the Company, to be 
placed with the above collection. Aside from furnishing an 



* The visit of Lafayette to the encampment, escorted by Governor Eustis, took place August 27, 1824. 
Upon his arrival a salute was fired from the six-pounders. After this was paid, General Lafayette and 
Governor Eustis each directed a shot from the cannon. The one by the Genera] took effect just above the 
centre of the target.— A''. E. G. Records, vol. 11, /. 139. 

t Captain J. Putnam Bradlee, the last surviving commander of the New England Guards, entered the 
corps in 1836. He was elected Captain Mar. 20,1845, and held that position until 1852. The following is a list 
of those who held the commission of Captain : Samuel Swett, George Sullivan, George W. Lyman, Frank- 
lin Dexter, Charles G. Loring, William H. Gardiner, William F. Otis, Edward G. Loriiig, Richard S. 
Fay, Thomas Dwight, Alanson Tucker, H. H. W. Sigourney, George Tyler Bigelow, Charles Gordon, 
J. Putnam Bradlee, Joseph L. Henshaw, George T. Lyman, Harrison Ritchie. 



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excellent idea of the military encampment of sixty-five years ago, 
the painting,* which bears the name of B. B. Curtis as its author, 
obtains additional historical value, as exhibiting Savin Hill at a 
period when its appearance was very different from what it is 
to-day. We have likewise to acknowledge, as accessions to this 
department, the gift from Mr. Joseph B. Glover, of various portions 
of the uniform and equipment worn, while we have also received 
from Colonel William Vincent Hutchings, several swords, which 
were borne by members of the corps in active service upon the 
field. An appropriate case, wherein the smaller articles may be 
deposited together, has been provided through the liberality of Cap- 
tain Bradlee, and it is hoped that any other of our citizens hav- 
ing in their possession any additional souvenirs of the Company, 
may, after learning that a safe place has been secured for the preser- 
vation of such portions of its former property as may chance to 
remain in this community, decide to add them to this department. 
Your committee, regarding it as especially fortunate that these 
valuable relics of this early train-band, so essentially Bostonian in 
its history and antecedents, have been happily placed, for ward and 
guardianship, in the old Town-house for coming time, among the 
collections of a Society like our own, has caused them to be 
appropriately arranged at the west end of the Representatives' 
Hall, of which they may be said to constitute a striking feature. 

THE SCANDINAVIAN SHIp's BELL. 

Among the objects of interest which claim special notice here, 
is a ship's bell, which has lately been placed in our custody. It is 
deposited with us by the United States Government, through 
Major Charles W. Raymond, of the Corps of Engineers, in com- 
mand of Boston Harbor, in behalf of the War Department. It has 
been preserved upon Castle Island,! the site of the present Fort 
Independence, from a period antedating the memory of any person 



* In Camp at Savin Hill, September ii, 1S19. During the morning a painter is employed to take a 
sketch of the encampment, whicli is to ornament the Armory of the Corps. — iV. E. G. Records, vol. i. 

t Castle Island is distant about two and a third miles from Long Wharf. As early as 1635, a kind of 
fort was erected upon it, which consisted of earthen embankments. Shaw says its first commander was 
Capt. Simpkins. The island consisted of about eight acres, as estimated in the time of Capt. Edward 
Johnson. On this Island has always been the chief fortification of Boston. On the accession of King 
William, it was named, in honor of him, Castle William. After the Revolution it received its present 
name of I' ort Independence. 



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now living, no records pertaining either to that fortification or to 
its predecessor, Castle William, that can as yet be found, afford- 
ing any satisfactory answer to the interesting query as to when it 
first there appeared. A reference, however, to an early bequest, 
contained in the will of Captain Thomas Cromwell,* which 
appears upon Boston Town Records,! opens a fertile field for 
speculation and inquiry, which, should the statement there made 
be identified as referring to this curious waif, will place in the 
hands of this Society a relic of the Colonial period of the greatest 
historic value. The bell, which was in service at the fort as late 
as 183 1, but which has been for some time disused, was brought 
to this city by Major Raymond, in order that its preservation 
might be insured. It is of quaint form, and exceedingly clear in 
tone. Its crown is missing, as is also its tongue. Cast of brass, 
alloyed with copper, it bears around its centre an inscription, in 
raised letters of Swedish capital script, of which the following exact 
reproduction in fac-simile, considerably reduced, has been executed 
especially for insertion here : 

A literal translation may be rendered thus : Belonging to the ship 
the Patriot, X and the fact that the bell is first, Scandinavian, and sec- 

* Governor Winthrop, writing in 1646, speaks of the above-named Thomas Cromwell, who was admitted 
a resident of the town of Boston in 1638, as follows : "One Captain Cromwell, about ten years since a 
common sailor in the Massachusetts, had been out with Captain Jackson in a man-of-war, by commission 
from the Earl of Warwick divers years, and having a commission of deputation from his said captain, had 
taken four or five Spanish vessels, and in some of them great riches. Upon 'the tenth of the fourth 
month' (1646), he returned to Boston. He and all his men had much money, and great store of plate 
and jewels of great value." Captain Cromwell died here in 1649. In his will, dated August twenty-ninth 
of that year, appears the following clause : "lion : "I give my six Bells, being in ye custody of Henry 
Walton, vnto ye Towne of Boston." Suffolk Records, Lib. i, Fol.i,^. 

Although evidence is unfortunately lacking to show how these bells were acquired, there appears rea- 
sonable ground for the theory that Cromwell, in the course of his cruises, may have taken them from the 
ships captured by him, perchance recovering from some Spanish robber, the relic of a friendly vessel, like 
the Swedes'. 

t The following entries, relative to this gift appear in Boston Town Records : 
" — The gth month, 1650. At a Generall Towne meeting upon warning, it was agreed that the bells Capt. 
Cromwell gave the Towne should be by the Selectmen disposed of to the Best Advantage, and the produce 
Laid out for one Bell for a Clocke." 

— The Sth of the ist month, 1651. At a Generall Towne meeting upon publicke notice. ****** Jj 
IS Ordered that James Everill and the Neighbours which set up the Conduit by the Dock shall have on of 
the Bells (which were given by Capt. Cromwell), for a Clocke, and to inioy it whiles they make that use 
of it there. 

— 28: 11: 55. (Jan. 28, 1655-56.) Memoranda, that there is a greatt Bell belonging to the Towne, lent to 
Castle Island, to Capt. Richd. Davenport. — Boston Town Records. 

X The unusual use of the article may appear superfluous to the casual reader, but the fact that ct and 
en, annexed respectively to the nouns Skcff and Patriot, stand in this case for the Swedish article, ren- 
ders its use indispensable in a classical rendering of the sentence. 



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ond Swedish, as distinguished from the other countries of Scandina- 
via, is unmistakably shown. Your committee, being of the opinion 
that the establishment of its age is of much historical importance, 
in the view that some clue ma}^ possibly be thereby afforded to the 
vexed question as to the period of its arrival upon these shores, has 
caused inquiries to be addressed to various sources of authority in 
the North, where information regarding it might possibly be 
obtained, enclosing accurate views of the bell, with an exact impres- 
sion of the inscription borne upon its side. Although we have as 
yet received nothing definite in reply, save the assurance that the 
matter will receive careful investigation, we are, we believe, war- 
ranted in expressing the opinion, that a consultation of the marine 
registries cf Scandinavia may possibly furnish a clue to the identity 
and date of the ship Patriot, or, failing this, that the antique fashion 
of the letters composing the inscription, may enable Scandinavian 
scholars to form some theory as to the period at which the bell was 
cast. Finally, it may be said, that should any of the inquiries now 
being forwarded, result in satisfactorily establishing its claim to an 
age contemporary with the date named in Boston Town Records, 
it will give it a claim to the distinction of being one of the most 
ancient pieces of public property remaining in existence, to which 
a title may be traced back to the early days of the Massachusetts 
Colony, 

OBJECTS OF HISTORICAL VALUE. 

During the year, many additional articles of historical value have 
been deposited among the collections of the Society. Among these 
are a brass gorget, gold-plated, bearing an elaborately engraved 
representation of the Arms of George the Third, which is alleged 
to have been worn by one of His Britannic Majesty's officers in 
America at the period of the Revolution, and a frilled bosom cam- 
bric shirt, originally owned and worn by Governor Hancock, placed 
in the Loan Collection by Mrs. E.A.W. Wales, of Dorchester. VVe 
have also received, through our fellow-member, Mr. Andrew C. 
Slater, executor of the estate of the late Samuel Leeds, one of the 
granite balls which surmounted the towers of the ancient structure 
known as the Triangular Warehouse,* formerly standing at the 

* The great P'ire of 1679 destroyed the old buildings in the neighborhood of the Dock, and among 
others the warehouse belonging to Mr. Richard Wharton. Consecjuently he rebuilt it, about the year i6£o, 



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head of the Town Dock, so called, in the vicinity of Faneuil Hall. 
To another of our members, Mr. John Joseph May, we are indebted 
for an interesting memorial from the house of Lieutenant-Governor 
Thomas Hutchinson, in the form of three Flemish tiles, appropri- 
ately mounted, which were taken from one of the fire-places of the 
Governor's former mansion at the North End * We likewise men- 
tion the receipt of two interesting and valuable manuscripts, 
placed in our care by Mr. Curtis Guild, being respectively a 
request from John Endecott, Governor of the Massachusetts Col- 
ony, under date of May 6, 1661, to the Governor of a neighboring 
colony, for the delivery of the persons of the regicides Goffe 
and Whalley ; and the commission issued to John Brooks 
(afterwards Governor), as Marshal of the military district of 
Massachusetts, bearing the autograph signatures of George Wash- 
ington as President, and Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State, 
dated at Philadelphia, Nov. 7, 1791. An object of great local 
interest has also been deposited in this department, through the 
kindness of Miss Caroline M. Fitch, of this city, in the form of a 
wooden model of the building formerly known as the Faneuil- 
Phillips house,! which stood upon Common, (the present Tremont,) 
Street, opposite King's Chapel Burial-Ground. This is of special 

of brick, with slated roof, according to the new requirements. The construction of the building was 
somewhat singular. It was built in a triangular form, according to the shape of the lot, with hexagonal 
towers at the angles, surmounted with pyramids, topped off with stone balls, one of which has been pre- 
served by Samuel Leeds, Esq., of South Boston. The roof of the centre part of the building was also of 
the same form, similarly top;ied off with a massive wooden ball. The whole structure was two stories in 
height, although each of the towers had three stories. The lower story was constructed with arches, and 
a singularly arched cellar was below the building. The attic was extremely high in its centre, and very 
rough. The property was purchased by the city May 12, 1824, and shortly aftei-wards the old building 
was taken down. Its measurement was forty-two feet westerly ; forty-seven feet ten inches [north-easterly, 
and forty feet on the southerly or wharf side, each angle or corner being eight feet wide. — A Topograph- 
ical and Historical Description 0/ Boston, By Natlianiel B. Shurtleff, Bostott,: 1870. Chap. LVii. 

* The house of Lieut. Gov. Hutchinson stood upon Garden Court Street, and its spacious grounds 
extended back to Hanover and Fleet Street. The buildmg was sacked by a mob, on the night of August 
26, 1765, during the excitement of the Stamp Act trouble. The house was built of brick and painted, 
the plainness of the facade being relieved by a representation of the British Crown over every window, 
and by a row of Ionic pilasters. — Memorial History 0/ Boston, vol. ii, Chap. xvii. 

t The Faneuil mansion in Tremont Street, opposite the Stone Chapel Cemetery, was purchased by 
William Phillips, senior, after the Revolution, and became the residence of his son. The deep court- 
yard, ornamented by flowers and shrubs, was divided into an upper and lower platform, by a high glacis, 
surmounted by a richly wrought iron railing. The edifice was of brick, and over the entrance door was 
a semi-circular balcony. The hall and apartments were spacious, and elegantly furnished. The terraces, 
which rose from the paved court behind the house, were supported by massive walls of hewn granite, and 
were ascended by flights of steps of the same material. * * * * A grasshopper, similar to the vane 
of Faneuil Hall, yet glittered on a summer-house in the garden, which commanded a view only inferior to 
that from Beacon Hill,. — HUmoirs of Eliza S. M. Quincy. 



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value, as affording a fine exemplification of the mansion-house of 
the Provincial period, and has been awarded a position of honor 
in the Council Chamber. Other most acceptable contributions to 
this department have been received from General Samuel Andrews, 
Mr. George Hemenway, Mr. C. O. Pratt, of Dorchester, Mr. H. L. 
Narramore, of Sharon, and the Rev. Joseph Banvard, D. D., of 
Kansas City, Missouri. For assistance rendered it in forwarding 
satisfactorily its work under this head, your committee extends its 
cordial acknowledgments to Mr. Emerson O. Saben, Mr. James C. 
Tucker^ and Captain John S. Damrell. 

A RELIC FROM THE TOWER OF THE OLD SOUTH. 

In November last, we were made the recipients of a valuable relic 
from the tower of the Old South Meeting-House, through the 
Standing Committee of the Old South Church, in the form of an 
ancient gravestone. A few words concerning this stone, for in- 
formation in regard to which we are indebted to Mr. Hamilton A. 
Hill, a member of the parish, may be here of interest : 

In the autumn of 1850, workmen engaged in repairs upon the 
Old South Meeting-House, were I'emoving some bricks in the tower, 
and found it necessary to displace a flat stone, near the north dial 
of the clock. This proved to be a gravestone bearing the name of 
Joshua Scottow, one of the founders of the Third, or Old South 
Church, who died in 1698.* Near by, were found the gravestones 
of William Middleton, who died in 1699, and of Anna Quincy, 
1676. When, or by whom, these stones had been placed where 
they were discovered, no one knows, but they undoubtedly came 
from King's Chapel Burial-Ground. When the Old South Society 
removed to their new home on the Back Bay, they brought these 
relics with them, as well as the old bell,t (put up in 18 16,) and 



* Joshua Scottow, freeman; artill. co., 1645, its ensign in 1657, and captain later; selectman; a great 
proprietor after Phillip's war, at Scarborough, captain of the garrison there and magistrate. Sewall 
records, Jan. 21, 1697-9S : " It seems Capt. Scottow died the last night. Thus the New England men 
drop away."— //■;>/. Catalogue Old South Church, //. 219-220. 

t We give below the following extract from an interesting paper, read by Mr. Hamilton A. Hill, before 
the Society, a short time since : 

The bell originally placed in the tower of the Old South Church, came from London, and bore the 
following inscription : "The Gift of Capt. Timothy Cunningham to the South Church in Boston ; who 
died at sea, Sept. 12, 1728." It was unfortunately cracked while ringing for fire dunng a tempest on 
Sept. 23, 1815, and had to be sold for old metal. A new uue was ordered from London, which duly 
arrived, and was placed in the tower in July, 1S16. 



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other objects of special interest. The gravestones of Joshua 
Scottow and Anna Quincy, with that of John Alden,* (second of 
the name, and another of the founders of the Third Church,) 
which had been lying for many years in a barn in the town of 
Randolph, have recently been erected on the wall of the portico of 
the new Meeting-House. William Middleton is not known to have 
had any direct connection with the Third Church, and his grave- 
stone has therefore been deposited in the custody of this Society. 
His name may be found mentioned several times in the early his- 
tory of the Town. 

OLD MEZZOTINT OF BOSTON LIGHT. 

In the course of its correspondence during the past year, your 
committee was so fortunate as to obtain knowledge of the existence, 
in the hands of the Treasury Department, (Light-House Board,) 
at Washington, of a rare mezzotint, representing the first Light- 
House built on this continent, erected upon Little Brewster 
Island, in Boston Harbor, in 1715, at the expense of the General 
Court of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay.f This valuable 
print, which dates from about 1730, exhibits an excellent view of 
the Light-House, as seen from the water, while in the foreground 
appears a British customs pinnace riding at anchor. | An especially 

* John Alden, the eldest son of John Alden, the Pilgrim of Plymouth and Duxbiu^, and Priscilla, 
"the Puritan maiden." He sailed for many years as a shipmaster, and seems to have been in the employ 
of his fellow church-member, John Hull, who records in his Diary : " 1669, nth mo. Master John 
Alden went for England in the ketch Frietidship, being three-fourths mine." "ibjz. I lost my ketch, 
three-fourths, with her lading, from Virginia, taken by the Dutch from John Alden, worth about two 
hundred pounds." Judge Sewall records his decease as follows : March 14, 1701-2. "Captain John 
Alden expired ; going to visit him, I happened to be there at the time." — Hist. Catalogtie Old South 
Church, pp. 223-24. 

t The first Light-house on this continent was built at the entrance to Boston Harbor, on Little Brewster 
Island, in 1715-16, at a cost of ^^385 17s. 8><d. It was erected by the order, and at the expense of the 
General Court of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, and was supported by light dues of id. per 
ton on all incoming and outgoing vessels, except coasters, levied by the Collector of Imports at Boston. 
The maritime colonies followed the example of Massachusetts, and when the United States, by the Act 
of August 7, 1789, accepted the cession of the title to, and joint jurisdiction over, the light-houses on the 
coasts, and agreed to maintain them thereafter, they were eight in number, and comprised the follow- 
ing lights, all of which are still in existence, though so greatly improved that they are the same only in 
purpose and in site : Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Harbor Light ; Boston Light, on Little Brewster 
Island ; the Gurnet Light near Plymouth, Mass.; Brant Point Light, on Nantucket, Mass.; Beaver 
Tail Light, on Coanicut Island, Rhode Island, in Long Island Sound ; Sandy Hook Light, New Jersey, 
entrance to New York Harbor; Cape Henlopen, Delaware, at entrance to Delaware Bay; Charleston 
Main Light, on Morris Island, Charleston, S.C. 

Arnold B. Johnson, in "The Annual Cyclopcedia" vol. v., p. 430. 

X View of Boston Light, on Little Brewster Island, inscribed: "To the Merchants of Boston this 
View of the Light House is most humbly presented By their Humble Senant, William Burgis." 

W. Burgis, del. et fecit. 



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striking feature exhibited in this print appears in the presence of 
several trees growing upon the island, which are thus illustrative 
of the claim that the islands in our harbor, now so bare of trees, 
were in early times well wooded, and which has been referred to, 
in a most interesting manner, in a valuable paper upon Boston Har- 
bor, recently read before the Society of Arts, in this city, by Major 
Charles W. Raymond, of the Engineer Corps, U. S. Army. 

The name of the author, William Burgis, likewise appears in the 
old map of Viosion, (^Thomas JoJinson, sc^ originally executed in 
1729, and dedicated to His Excellency, Governor Burnet, which 
has since been accurately reproduced by the late Nathaniel B. 
Shurtleff, M.D., in the valuable historical work written by him, and 
published in 1870.* Through the courtesy of Commander Henry 
F. Picking, U. S. N., Secretary of the Light-House Board, its per- 
mission was very kindly given your committee to have a full-size 
photographic negative taken from the original print, and this we 
have lately added to the Society's collections. For important 
information relative to the whereabouts of this curious mezzotint, 
we express our cordial acknowledgments to Mr. Edward W. West, 
of New York City, through whose brother. Lieutenant C. H. 
West, U. S. N., it was originally given to the Light-House Board. 

GROWTH OF PUBLIC INTEREST. 

Your Committee refers, with gratification, to many evidences of 
a marked increase of public interest in the work of the Society. 
This has been exhibited in various ways, but by none perhaps, 
more significantly than in the constant demand for information as 
to the Society's progress in the field to which its efforts are 
devoted. This, as is well known to our members, was set forth as 
fully as possible in the annual report of your committee, imme- 
diately preceding that of the past year, and of which some nine- 
teen hundred copies have been placed in circulation. 

The register placed in the halls by your committee, for the 
inscription of the names of visitors, exhibits ample evidence of 
the fact that a very large number of persons have been attracted 
thither during the year that has just closed. The matter of regis- 
try is, of course, not obligatory, being entirely at the choice of the 

* A Topographical and Historical Description of Boston. By Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Boston : 1870. 



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visitor. We have estimated, after a careful scrutiny of the subject, 
that not exceeding fifty per cent, of those visiting the rooms elect 
to register, yet the aggregate record of autographs for the year 
which has just closed, shows a total for the period between 
January i, 1884, and January i, 1885, of five thousand, six hun- 
dred and thirty-seven signatures. Of these, one thousand, eight 
hundred and forty-three were residents of Boston ; three thousand, 
four hundred and sixty-two resident elsewhere in the United 
States, and three hundred and thirty-two from foreign countries 
The edition of the pamphlet containing a brief historical sketch 
of the Old State House, and of events connected with it, which 
was prepared and published by your committee in October, 18S3, 
numbered five hundred copies. These, offered to the general pub- 
lic through the custodians placed by us in attendance here, have 
been readily disposed of at the nominal figure placed upon them. 
Believing that a sketch of this description is most acceptable to a 
large proportion of the public, we contemplate the preparation of 
another of similar character, to the end that information regarding 
most important incidents in our country's past, with which this 
historic edifice will remain forever identified, may be readily 
obtained. 

THE TOPOGRAPHICAL DEPARTMENT. 

Your committee particularly calls the attention of the Society 
to the fact, that it is especially desirous of increasing its topograph- 
ical collection of maps of Boston and vicinity, now in course of 
formation, by every means in its power. We are hoping to bring 
together in this building as complete a representation of the 
topography of this locality, at different periods of its growth, as 
can possibly be secured, and of such of our members as may chance 
to be aware of the existence, in private hands, of any specimen 
not already represented in this department, we take this oppor- 
tunity to ask that they will impart such information to us. 

It has been our aim to furnish, in the record of accessions to 
the collections under our charge, which we have annexed to this 
report, as nearly as possible, an exact list of the articles given to 
the Society, through this committee, since its formation, up to the 
date of the present annual meeting. To the end that interest may 
be specially stimulated in the map collection, your committee has 



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added a specially prepared list of the examples of Boston topogra- 
phy now in its possession, in which, in every case, the title and date 
of each map is given as accurately as possible. 

ACCESSIONS TO THE SOCIETY'S COLLECTIONS. 

The number of additions to the Society's collections during the 
past year has assumed most gratifying proportions. In summar- 
izing the progress achieved in this direction, your committee 
reports the number of accessions as aggregating two hundred and 
eighty, and of articles placed in the Loan Collection as forty. 

We feel, however, while referring to this subject, that we should 
by no means omit to call the attention of our fellow-members to 
the fact, that, while the available space upon the walls of these halls 
appears to be fully occupied, much of this room is taken by valua- 
ble portraits which have been placed temporarily in our custody, and 
which are liable at any time to withdrawal by their owners. Bear- 
ing this in mind, your committee repeats the suggestion embodied 
in its first annual report, to the effect that, in its opinion, a certain 
expenditure is warrantable from the Society's treasury for the pro- 
curing of portraits of some of the early magistrates of the Province, 
which could nowhere be placed more appropriately than upon the 
walls of this building. In connection with this subject, your com- 
mittee cordially acknowledges its obligations to a large number of 
persons for entrusting to its possession numerous articles of value 
embraced in the Loan Collection. Finally, it should be borne in 
mind, that although the record of the past year exhibits a most 
gratifying progress in the work of the Society, there is yet need 
of earnest and persevering effort upon the part of all who are 
desirous of seeing its present satisfactory position consolidated and 
sustained. 

All of which is respectfully submitted. 



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Mr. James L. Whitney then reported as follows, in behalf of the 
Committee on the Library: — 

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE LIBRARY. 

By a vote of the Society, passed May 13, 1884, a committee was 
appointed to take charge of the Library. This committee was 
duly organized, and has held regular meetings. Its report, here- 
with presented, covers only the time from the approach of summer 
until the end of the year. During these seven months the Society 
has received by gift or loan one hundred and eight volumes, and 
one hundred and two pamphlets, and a large collection of news- 
papers. 

During the early part of the year, before the appointment of 
the committee, additional gifts of books were received from the 
Reverend Robert C. Waterston, Mr. William W. Wheildon, the 
Honorable Marshall P. Wilder, and others. The Honorable Rob- 
ert C. Winthrop and Mr. Francis Parkman presented to the 
Society their published works. These contributions, added to the 
books already received, form a respectable beginning of a Library, 
for whose development the committee solicit an increased interest 
on the part of the Society and the public. 

Such a Library as this will naturally be built up within certain 
well defined limits. First of all, it will include whatever in print 
touches upon the history, the topography, and the manners and 
customs of Boston. Next, biographies of Bostonians, and books 
written by them are desired. As the union between Boston and 
New England has always been a close one, all material bearing 
upon this larger section of the country will be welcome. 

An idea of the customs of our ancestors can be gained, perhaps 
better than in any other way, from old newspapers, and an especial 
effort should be made to collect these. Whatever has not already 
fallen into the hands of other libraries or societies, should be dili- 
gently sought after. 

It must be remembered that for some time to come, the Society 
may have but little money to expend upon its library, and that its 
growth must be slow and must depend almost entirely upon the 
interest and generosity of its friends. 

All of which is respectfully submitted. 



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Upon motion of Mr. William H. Whitmore, it was 
Voted, that the Committee on the Rooms be authorized to pre- 
pare a memorial to be presented to the members of the Society for 
the year 1885, at an expense to be fixed by the Board of Directors. 



Mr. Jacob A. Dresser, in behalf of the committee appointed to 
nominate officers for the ensuing year, asked leave to report in 
part. The names of the following gentlemen were offered by the 
committee as candidates for Directors of the Society, while in 
regard to presenting a candidate for Clerk, they asked for further 
time, which was granted. 

For Directors : 

THOMAS C. AMORY, 
WILLIAM S. APPLETON, 
WILLIAM H. BALDWIN, 
JOSHUA P. BODFISH, 
CURTIS GUILD, 
JOHN T. HASSAM, 
HAMILTON A. HILL, 
SAMUEL H. RUSSELL, 
WILLIAM H. WHITMORE. 

A ballot was then taken, and the foregoing list of candidates 
declared to be duly elected Officers of the Society for the ensuing 
year. 

Upon motion of Mr. Jacob A. Dresser, Mr. William H. Whit- 
more was elected Clerk and Treasurer, /;v tcni. 

Upon motion of ]\Ir. Samuel H. Russell, it was 

Voted, that the thanks of the Society be extended to Mr. 
Thomas Minns, for his past service upon the board of Directors. 

Upon motion of Mr. John Lathrop, it was 

Voted, that the thanks of the Society be extended to Mr. James 
M. Hubbard, for his services during the past year as its Clerk and 
Treasurer. 

Upon motion of Mr. William W. Wheildon, of Concord, it was 
Voted, that the Clerk be authorized to obtain by purchase, or 



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otherwise, a sample copy of each newspaper or periodical pub- 
lished at the present time in the City of Boston, for future refer- 
ence, securing copies issued on or near the first of January, 1885. 
Upon motion of Mr, Samuel H. Russell, it was 
Voted, that the several reports be accepted, and that the pro- 
ceedings of this meeting be published in the usual form. 
Adjourned. 

WILLIAM H. WHITMORE, Clerk. 



ACCESSIONS TO THE SOCIETY'S COLLECTIONS. 



James Alexander. 

A lithographic pi-int, entitled: "The Cunard Roval Mail Steamship Britannia, 
(John Hewett, Commander,) as she appeared leaving her Dock at East Boston, 
February 3, 1844, bound from Boston to Liverpool." The original print bore 
this inscription: "Dedicated by the publishers to the Merchants of Boston, who 
projected and paid for a Canal cut in the Ice, seven miles long, and one hun- 
dred feet wide." Fcrd. Mayer, lith., N. T. 

George H. Allan. 

A fragment of masonry taken from the ancient tower of St. Botolph's Church, 
Boston, Lincolnshire, England. 

General Samuel Andrews. 

The Commission of the private-armed brig Abcvllino, owned by Henry and 
Winslow Lewis, of Boston, to cruise in the war of 1S12-14. Dated, Washington, 
December 10, 1814. Signed by James Madison, President of the United States, 
and countersigned by James Monroe, Secretary of State. Endorsed: "Surren- 
dered at the conclusion of peace, August, 1815." 

Captain Nathan Appleton. 

A photographic view representing members of the Tremont Club, taken 
about 1840. 

A photographic view representing members of the Massachusetts Humane 
Society, incorporated Feb. 23, 1791. 

A heliotype reproduction, entitled: A Map of old Boston and Environs, 
accompanied with an imaginative representation of the top of Beacon Hill, 
showing the beacon, and inscribed : "Y'= Olde Beacon Light w"'' stood on y^ 
Beacon Hill." 

A steel-plate portrait (India proof) of the late John Lothrop Motley, LL. D., 
D. C. L., born in Dorchester, April 15, 1S14; died in England, May 29, 1S77. 
F. T. Stuart, sc. 

A photographic view taken between the years 1842 and 1854, representing the 
members of the Saturday Evening Club, composed of the following members of 
the Medical profession in Boston : James Brown Gregerson, William Edward 
Coale, Samuel Parkman, Le Baron Russell, Jonathan Mason Warren, Robert 
William Hooper, Samuel Cabot, Charles Eliot Ware, Oliver Wendell Holmes, 
(jcorge Amory Bethune. 

A bas-rclicf'm plastei-of-Paris, entitled: "Old South Church." 

A steel-plate portrait ( India proof,) of the late Abbott Lawrence, born at 
Groton, Dec. 16, 1792; died August 18, 1S55. 

A fragment of wood inscribed: "From Rev. Dr. Channing's Pulpit, March 
17, 1S50." 

A fragment of the Old Elm, which formerly stood on Boston Common, but 
which was destroyed by the gale of February 15, 1S76, inscribed : "Great Tree, 
1S76." 



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A photographic view, cabinet size, of Franklin Street, south side, taken in 
1857, and showing the old Archway. 

A heliotjpe reproduction from an original sketch, entitled : "A View of 
the Back Bay, Charles Street and the Common, from a sketch taken in 1823, 
trom the balcony of 61 Beacon Street, by "M. J. D." 

Two heliotype reproductions upon one sheet, considerably reduced from the 
original, of Beacon Hill, after the views drawn and engraved by /. R. Smith , 
in 181 1, entitled as follows: 

"View of Beacon Hill, from Temple and Derne Streets." 
"View of Beacon Hill, with Mr. William Thurston's house." 

A steel-plate portrait of the late Samuel Appleton, born June 22. 1766; died 
July 12, 1S53. 5. A. Schoff, sc, after the painting in oil by G. P. A. Healy. 

Several manuscripts, containing valuable autograph signatures. 

A steel-plate portrait of the late Nathan Appleton, born October 6th, 1779; 
died July 14th, 1S61. S.A.Schojff, sc, after the painting in oil by G. P. A. Healy. 

A steel-plate portrait of the late Thomas Gold Appleton, born March 31, 1812; 
died April 17, 1S84. Metropolitan Publishing a7id Engraving Company^ JVevj 
Tork. 

Three photographic views of localities visited by the Great Fire, Nov. 9-10, 
1872, specified as follows : 

— A view upon Summer Street, looking from Hawley towards Washington 
Street, showing the ruins of Trinity Church in the foreground. 
— A view upon Hawley Street, looking towards Milk Street. 

— A view upon Washington Street, showing the ruins of the store of Macullar, 
Williams & Parker 

A photographic portrait of the late Nathan Appleton, born at New Ipswich, 
K". H., October 6, 1779; died at Boston, July 14, 1S61, after the painting by G.P. 
A. Healy. 

William S. Appleton. 

An Albertype view of State Street, looking from the corner of Merchants' 
Row towards the Old State House, inscribed: "This photograph of State Street 
was made from a glass negative, and printed upon a lithographic press, with 
common printing inlv." N. E. Photo-plate Printing Company, 22 Trctnont 
Street, Boston. 

S.AMUEL BaCHELDER, OF ChELSEA. 

A lithographic portrait, entitled : "Rev. John Murray, founder of the Order 
of Universalist in America. "J. H. Buftbrd,del. on stone. Pendleton s Lithography , 
after a painting in oil by Johnson. Boston : Published by Joel Nason, 1833. 

A, C. Baldwin. 

Painting in oil, of Boston, from Dorchester, Scenian, pinx. 

Map of the Towns of Dorchester and Milton, Pendleton, lith. iSji. 

Copper-plate print, entitled: "Sacred to Patriotism " Dedicated to Congress. 
Drawn and painted by Charles Buxton, M. D., C. Ticbor, sc. 

David M. Balfour, of Charlestovvn. 

A draught of an old plan, entitled: "Beacon Hill, A. D. 1730, before the 
houses." 

Rev. Joseph Banvard, D. D., of Kansas City, Missouri. 
A portrait in oil, taken from life, of Dr. Nathaniel Shepherd Prentiss, born 



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in Cambridge, August 7, 1766; died in West Cambridge, Nov. 7, 1S53. Bass 
Otis, pi'nx. 

A portrait in oil, kit-cat size, of the Rev. Samuel Stillman, D. D., pastor of 
the First Baptist Church in Boston, from 1765 to 1S07. Born in Philadelphia, 
Feb. 27, 1737; died in Boston, March 13, 1S07. Johnson, finx. 

An electrotype reproduction, made by George G. Smith, in 1S35, of an origin- 
al copper-plate entitled: ''The Town of Boston in New England, bj Capt. John 
Bonner, 1722, ^tatis su3e 60." 

An engrossed parchment, being a deed of sale, dated Boston, Dec. 5, 174I' 
from Thomas Foxcroft to Thomas Soden, of Cambridge, of a large tract of 
land situate in Cambridge, for the consideration of £575. Signed and sealed 
by Thomas and Anna Foxcroft, and acknowledged before Jacob Wendell, Justice 
of the Peace, January 12, 1742. 

A stone hatchet, or Indian axe, dug up in Roxbury. 

Three manuscript sermons, and a bound volume of printed discourses deliv- 
ered by early members of the clergy in the Province of Massachusetts-Bay. 

Mrs. Luther Barnes. 

A lithographic print, after a painting by Davis, entitled : "Hanover Church, 
Boston." (Erected 1S26; burned February i, 1S30.) Drawn on stone by Mrs. 
Snow. Pc7idleton''s Lithography. 

Sylvester Baxter. 

Two photographic views within one frame, showing the late Beacon Hill 
Reservoir from different positions. This structure was erected in 1S47, ^"'^ 
removed in 1SS3. 

His Worship William Bedford, Mayor of Boston, Lincolnshire, England. 
A photographic portrait of William Bedford, Esq , Mayor of Boston, England, 
18S3, in regalia, as oflicial head of the Corporation of the Borough. 

James Wallace Black. 

Five photographic porti-aits, specified as follows : 
Daniel Webster, born 17S2; died 1S52. 
John A. Andrew, born May 31, 181S; Governor of Massachusetts, 1S61-66; 

died October 30, 1S67. 
William Lloyd Garrison, born Dec. 12, 1S05; died May 24, 1S79. 
Lemuel Shaw, born January 9, 17S1 ; Chief Justice of Massachusetts, 1S30-60; 

died March 30, 1S61. 
Benjamin F. Butler, born Nov. 5, iSiS; Governor of Massachusetts, 1SS3. 

Boston Antiquarian Club. 

View of Joy's Building, formerly standing on Washington Street, upon the 
site of the present Rogers Building. 

Heliotype reproduction of '' Franqucli)i' s Carti dc la ville, bay ei environs dc 
Baston, 1693. Traced from the original in the Depot des cartes de la Marine 
and presented to the Boston Public Library by Alfred Grecnough, Architect, 
June, 1S79." 

Two electrotype reproductions of original sketches, upon one sheet, showing 
the Old State House in 1770 and 1876. 

Plan of Boston, 1722. A. Bozven, sc. 

Reproduction, made in 187S, of a plan of Boston, dated 1800. 



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Reproduction, made in 1S69, of an original map of Boston, published by W. 
Curgis, dated in 1729, and dedicated to His Excellency, Governor Burnet. 
Thomas yohnson, sc. 

Steel-plate portrait of Judge Samuel Sewall, born 1652; died 1730, after an 
original painting. F. T. Stuart, sc. 

Electrotype reproduction of an old print, dedicated to His Honor, Lieut- 
Gov. Dummer, by W. Burgis, entitled: "A Prospect of the Colledges in 
Cambridge, in New England.'' 

A Ticket in "Faneuil Hall Lottery, No. Five," numbered 3665, being "a 
Lottery granted by an Act of the General Court of the Province of the Massa- 
chusetts Bay, for rebuilding Faneuil Hall." Dated Boston, June, 1765 : 

Boston Public Library. 

A photographic reproduction of an original pen and ink drawing found 
among the manuscripts in the British Museum, possibly executed by Governor 
John Winthrop, about 1634, showiug the Plantation of Boston and its surround- 
ings. 

BosTONiAN Society, — Purchased by Committee on the Rooms. 

An aquarelle print, from a fiic-simile lithographic drawing entitled: 'The 
Hub." Copyrighted by T. O. LangcrfeUt, inv. et fecit, 18S3. Executed and 
published by E. F. Ackermann, Boston, Mass. 

An outline steel-plate view, entitled : "Vicinity of Boston, from Bunker Hill 
Monument, 1857." James Smillie, sc. "Engraved for Drake's History of 
Boston." 

A portrait in oil, copied from the original painting, which was executed by 
Gilbert Stuart, of Jeremiah Allen, High Sherift" of Suffolk. Born Sept. i, 1750; 
died January 13, 1800. 

A lithographic print, entitled: "Hancock House, Beacon Street, Boston, 
Mass. Residence of the late John Hancock, first Signer of the Declaration of 
Independence, built, 1737." J. H. Biifford, lith. ; after a drawing by C. P. 
Newell. Boston: Published by C.Drew, 18 Court Street. 

A photographic view of the Hancock House, erected 1737; taken down in 
1863. 

A silver-mounted malacca walking stick, inscribed: "John Tileston, 1775-" 

A broadside, bearing a wood-cut view of the engagement between the United 
States Frigate Constitution, and the British Frigate Guerriere, August 19, 
1S12. A. Bowen, sc, entitled: "A description of part of the contents of 
the Columbian Museum, near the New Court House aad Stone Chapel, Tre- 
mont Street, Boston, D. & A Bowen, Printers, 12 Court Street " 

Thirty-two copper-plate views of various churches and public buildings in 
Boston, A. Bozven, sc, which appeared in the third edition of the volume 
entitled : "A Picture of Boston," published January 2, 1838 

Steel-plate view of Boston from Boston Bay, C. Alottram, sc, 1857, after the 
painting by J. W. Hill. 

Plans and Maps of Boston for the years 1814, 1832, 1833, 1S35, 1S36, 
1S37, 1S38, 1844, 1S46, 1848, 1849, 1S51, 1852, 1853, 1855, 1858, 1859; Plan 
of Boston, with parts of the adjacent towns, published by the Boston 
Bewick Company, 1835. 

An electrotype reproduction of a wood-cut portrait of Abel Bowen. 



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An electrotype reproduction of a wood-cut design used as a frontispiece by 
Abel Bowen, in the volume published by him, entitled : "A Picture of Boston." 

Map of Boston from the Guide Book, 1S64; Map of the "Environs of 
Boston," 1848; Map of Boston from Boston Almanac. 1849; Map of New- 
England, 1850, showing telegraphic and railroad communications; Plan, 
showing the proposed improvement of the Back Bay, 1S79. 

Copper-plate portrait of the Rev. Mather Byles, pastor of Hollis Street 
Church, 1732-1777. Born, March 26, 1706; died July 5th, 1788. 6'. Harris, sc. 

Copper-plate portrait of "The Hon'''-'- Samuel Adams, Esq., first Delegate to 
Congress from Massachusetts." y. Norman, sc. 

Copper-plate engraving entitled : " View of Bunker's Hill, from a drawing 
by Rev. Mr. Elderton." (^Gentleman's Magazine, Feb. 1790.) 

Lithographic portrait of General Joseph Warren, born June 11, 1741 ; killed 
at Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. Pendleton, litJi., after the painting by Alexander. 

Electrotvpe view of the Coliseum, erected for the Peace Jubilee in Boston, in 
1S69. 

Steel-plate engraving of Faneuil Hall. John G. AIcRae, sc. 

A fac-simile of the original Speaker's Desk, formerly in the Representatives' 
Hall of the Old State House. 

A lithographic print by Fabronius, after the painting by Ames, entitled: 
" Webster at Marshfield." Published by D. C. Fabronius, in 1863. 

A certificate of membership in the Boston Sea Fencibles, 1S19, engraved on 
copper, showing in back-ground a view of Boston Light, as it appeared at that 
date. Annin S French, sc. 

Permit of safe passage granted the ship O'Cain, of Boston, dated January 11, 
1S03. Issued by Thomas Jefierson, President of the United States, and coun- 
tersigned by James Madison, Secretary of State, and showing in foreground a 
copper-plate view of Boston Light, as it appeared at that time. 

Fifteen cuts (wood and copper), being illustrations used by Abel Bowen, in 
his volume entitled: " A Picture of Boston." 

Copper-plate design commemorative of the services of Tho. S. Webb, one 
of the founders of the Handel and Haydn Society, Annin d- Smith, sc. 

A metal Sun-dial, bearing date 1762. 

Diagram illustrative of the figures represented in the oil painting by Wight, 
entitled: " Laying the Corner Stone of the Beacon Hill Reservoir, Nov. 22, 

I847-" 

Steel-plate portrait of Lafayette, proof; Leroux, sc., 1S24, after the painting 
in oil, by Ary Schaeffer, 1S22. 

An oil painting by y. IV. A. Scott, entitled, "View of Boston harbor, 1853." 

Boston Safe Deposit Company. 

A heliotype reproduction of a drawing by Thomas W. Davis, City Surveyor, 
in 1873, entitled: "Plan of Burnt District by P'ire of Nov. 9 and loth, 1872, 
showing street improvements, as adopted by Board of Street Commissioners 

and City Council." 

City of Boston. 

Large photographic view of the Old State House, as restored in iSSi. 

The Boston Herald. 

Fragment of masonry from the old Roman wall of London. 



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Captain J. Putnam Bradlee. 

A mahogany cabinet, bearing upon either end a representation, carved in 
relief, of the shield of the New England Guards, with the Company motto: 
" Our Nation's Honor the Bond of Union " 

A painting in oil, upon a mahogany panel, representing the Encampment of 
the New England Guards upon Savin Hill, under the command of Captain 
George W. Lyman, inscribed as follows : " September nth, i8ig. Painted by 
B. B. Curtis." 

Edwin H. Brigham, M. D. 

A specimen of Continental Currency, of the denomination of thirty dollars. 
Issued by "The United Colonies," under the Resolutions of the Congress held 
at Philadelphia, May lo, 1775. 

John Coffin Jones Brown. 

An original drawing in India ink, offered to the Bostonian Society by him as a 
design for a corporate seal, which was adopted upon Tuesday, February 13, 
1SS3. 

John Foster Bush, M. D. 

A reproduction, made in 1S46, of two original maps upon one sheet, 
entitled respectively: "The South Part of New England, as it is Planted this 
jeare, 1634," and "A Map of New-England, being the first that ever was here 
cut, and done by the best Pattern that could be had, which being in some places 
defective, it made the other less exact, yet doth it sufficiently show the Situation 
of the Countrey, and conveniently well the distance of Places. The figures that 
are Joyned with the Names of Places are to distinguish such as have been 
assaulted by the Indians from others." 

F. Eugene Bryant. 

The swing Sign of the old Pembroke Inn, formerly standing upon the 
Plymouth turnpike, upon the outskirts of the township of Pembroke. 

Cabot & Chandler. 

A large photographic view of the Ticknor Mansion, at the corner of Beacon 
and Park Streets, taken in May, 1SS3, just before the re-modelling of a portion 
of the building. 

Charles Chaplin, of Somerville. 

A silvered electrotype die of the Seal of the Plymouth Colony, founded 1620. 

A wooden die, representing the Seal of the "N. E. Numismatic and Archaeo- 
logical Society, A. D. 1S66." 

A pen and ink drawing, showing a design for the Seal of " The N. E. Numis- 
matic and Archaeological Society, A. D. 1S66." 

Dudley R. Child. 

A series of twenty-five small copper-plate prints, arranged within two frames, 
which are specified as follows: Tremont House and Theatre; Mt. Pleasant 
Classical Institution; Charter Oak, Hartford; Nahant Hotel; Bunker Hill 
Monument; Marine Hospital, Chelsea ; Faneuil Hall Market ; State House; 
City Hall, Boston; Academy of Sciences, Phila. ; Tremont House, Boston; 
Park Theatre, New York; Battle Monument, Baltimore; Upper Bridge, Phila; 
Old State House, Boston; Bowling Green, New York; Arcade, Providence; 



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Water Works, Phila. ; State House, Boston ; St. Thomas's Church, New York; 
Capitol, Washington; Merchants' Exchange, Phila. ; Quincy Market, Boston; 
City Hall, New York; President's House, Washington. 

Jeremiah Colburn. 

A lithographic print, entitled : Entrance to Cornhill from Washington 
Street, 1827." Dr. Hunt, del. Pendleton s Lithography. 

A lithographic print, entitled : "State Street, Boston." J. Mayer & Co., lith. 

A lithographic print, entitled: "State Street, from Washington to Devonshire 
Street, Boston." 

Albert O. Crane, of Boston. 

An advertisement of " The Swimming School located near the Meeting- 
House, of the Rev. Mr. Sharp, Boston," dated 1S30. 

Heliotype reproductions of Maps, entitled respectively: 

" A New and Accurate Plan of the Town of Boston in New-England, 1774-" 

" General Washington's Revolutionary War Map, after a survey ordered by 
him, showing the position of his army in defence of Boston, 1776." 

Charles F. Cutting. 

A wood-cut view of India Building, upon State Street. 

A wood cut view showing State Street from Merchants' Row to the Old State 
House, taken about 1S40. 

A lithographic print, entitled : " East view of State Street, Boston." J. J. 
Heath, Engr. S. N. Dickinson & Co. Printers. 

George K. Daniell, of Wellesley Hills. 

Portrait in oil of Hannah Adams, the authoress ; born 1755; died 1S31. 

Henry W. Daniell. 

A photographic view after the lithographic print by C. Burton, entitled: 
" Boston in 1S48, from East Boston." 

Moses Grant Daniell. 

Broadside, containing the printed Warrant for the last Town Meeting held in 
Boston, convened in Faneuil Hall, on Monday, March 4, 1822, to act upon the 
adoption of a City Charter. Dated February 26, 1822, and signed by Thomas 
Clark, Town Clerk. 

Stephen Grant Deblois. 

A photographic reproduction from an original portrait, of the late Deacon 
Moses Grant, of Boston, born July 29, 1785; died July 23, 1861. 

A Tax bill of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts against Stephen Grant and 
Co., dated Boston, October 24, 1809, for the sum of $29.00. Signed, " William 
Smith, Collector." 

A bill of lading signed by James Hall, master of the ship Paoli, bound "from 
London to Boston in New-England," calling for one cask and two trunks of 
merchandise to be delivered to Stephen Deblois, Newport, R. I. Dated London, 
March 28, 1771. 

Thomas C. De Carteret. 

Thirteen photographic reproductions of buildings and localities in Boston as 
they appeared about 1850-1865, specified as follows : 

View of Franklin Street, north side, looking from Devonshire towards Wash- 
ington Street. 



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View of Franklin Street, south side, looking from Hawley towards Devonshire 
Street. 

View of Washington Street at Franklin, looking south, showing the west side 
and Marlboro' Hotel. 

View of Washington Street, opposite the head of Milk, showing the west side. 

View of Washington Street, at Milk, showing old buildings opposite Old 
South Meeting-House. 

View of the edifice of the First Universalist Society of Roxbury, standing on 
Guild Row, corner of Dudley Street. 

Representation of the Great Organ formerly in Music Hall, Boston, erected 
1863 ; removed 1S84. 

View of Hanover Street, near Portland. 

View of the Old Warehouse formerly standing in Dock Square, corner of Aim 
Street, erected 1680; removed i860. 

View of Grover & Baker Sewing-Machine Manufactory, corner of Washington 
and Waltham Streets. 

View of the Engine-House of the Warren Engine Company, Dudley Street, 
Roxbury, with the old hand engine Warre?i, One, in foreground. 

William H. Dennet, of Everett. 

A heliotype reproduction of a drawing, entitled : " Celebration 250th Anni- 
versary of the Settlement of Boston, Sept. 17, iSSo. W. H. Cundy, Engineer. 
A. P. Martin, Chief Marshal." T/ie Heliotyfc Printing Co., Boston. 

A lithographic map, entitled: " Route of Procession, Sept. 17, 1880, and esti- 
mated time of reaching certain points." Forbes Co., Boston. 

" A Map of Boston, from the latest Surveys, published by Sampson, Daven- 
port & Co., Boston, Mass., 187 1." y. Mayer <& Co., lith., 4 State Street. 

Dr. John H. Dix. 

A photographic view of the raising of the Hotel Pelham, August, 1869, when, 
"by agreement between the City of Boston and Dr. Dix, it was moved westward, 
together with the vaulted sidewalk, on the line of Boylston Street, 13 feet, 10 
inches, in six days. The weight was estimated at 5,000 tons. The moving was 
successfully accomplished, and was said by General Benham of the U. S. Army, 
to be one of the greatest feats of modern engineering." 

John Dodge, of Charlestown. 

Cannon-ball fired by the British against Washington's intrenchments on 
Dorchester Heights, in 1775. 

Mrs. Nancy M. Downer. 

A photographic view of the house of Major Thomas Mclvill, taken in 1S32, 
showing a portion of Green Street, as it appeared at that time. 

Printed sketch of the life of Major Melvill, as published in Columbian 
Centinel, Oct. 30, 1832. 

James A. Dupee. 

Copper-plate portrait of John Qiiincy Adams, published in 1826. A. B. Dii- 
rand, sc, after the painting by Sully. 



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John MJEaton. 

Awood-cut view, entitled : "The Boston Type Foundiy in 1S23, near the 
historic Christ Church, on Salem Street." 

Arthur B. Ellis. 

Three wood-cut representations of various edifices built and occupied bj the 
First Church in Boston, specified as follows : 

Third House of Worship, (known as " the Old Brick,") corner stone laid 
June 25, 1712, upon the site of the second church structure, which was destroyed 
by fire Oct. 2, 171 1. 

Fourth House of Worship, (Chauncy Place,) dedicated July 21, iSoS, and re- 
moved about 1S70. 

Fifth House of Worship, (Corner of Berkeley and Marlborough Streets,) 
dedicated Dec. 10, 1868, and at present occupied by the Society. 

A steel-plate portrait of Rev. John Davenport, installed as pastor of the First 
Church in Boston, Dec. 9, 1668; died March 15, 1670, aged 72. F. Halpiu, sc. 

Wood-cut portraits of ministers of the First Church in Boston, specified as 
follows : 

Rev. John Cotton, installed as teacher, Oct. 10, 1633; died Dec. 23, 1652, aged 

67- 

Rev. Benjamin Wadsworth, ordained Sept. 8, 1696; (chosen Pres. Harv. Coll. 
1725;) died March 12, 1737, aged 67. 

Rev. Charles Chauncy, D.D., ordained Oct. 25, 1727; died Feb. 10, 1787, 
aged 82. 

A heliotype portrait of the Rev. William Emerson, installed Oct. 16, 1799; 
died May 12, iSii, aged 42. 

A steel-plate portrait of Rev. Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham, D.D., ordained 
March 15, 1S15 ; (resigned March, 1850;) died April 4, 1870, aged 76, //. W. 
Smt'^/i, sc. 

A heliotype portrait of Rev. Rufus Ellis, D.D., installed as minister of the 
First Church, May 4, 1S53. 

A photo-lithographic portrait, after a painting in oil, owned by the Massachu- 
setts Historical Society, of the Rev. John Wilson, first pastor of the "First 
Church in Boston." Installed as teacher, August 27, 1630; as pastor, Novem- 
ber 22, 1632 ; died August 7, 1667, aged 78. 

A lithographic print, entitled : " House of the Rev. John Wilson, from an 
india-ink sketch taken by the late Miss Eliza Susan Qj.iincy, in 1846, inscribed: 
" This house stood on Hancock Street, Braintree, and was built about 1640, on 
the tract of land granted him by the Colony." 

A heliotype representation of the Winthrop Cup, presented by Gov. John 
Winthrop to the First Church in Boston. 

A wood-cut reproduction of the title-page of a Tract written by Rev. John 
Cotton, entitled : " Milk for Babes, by John Cotton, B.D., and teacher to the 
Church of Boston, in New-England. London: 1646." 

Albert A. Folsom. 

A photographic view after an engraving by A. Willard and J. W. Barber, 
from an original drawing by J. W. Barber, made in 1839, entitled "Boston: 
The above shows the appearance of Boston as seen from the south-west, near 
the intersection of the Providence and Worcester railroads." 



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Edward J. Forster, M.D., of Charlestown. 

A heliotjpe reproduction of an old mezzotint portrait, entitled: " His Excel- 
lency Jonathan Belcher, Esq., Captain-General and Governour-in-Chief of His 
Majesty's Provinces of Massachuset's Bay and New Hampshire in New England, 
and Vice-Admiral of the Same." /. Fciber, sc, 1734, after a painting by R. 
Phillips. Representation of the Belcher Arms upon the margin, with motto: 
Loyal ati Mort. 

Charles E. French. 

The iron Fire-back of the chimney-piece of the Blue Room in the old Hancock 
house, cast in 1737. 

The lightning-rod from the Hancock house, which was erected by Benjamin 
Franklin. 

Ward Brooks Frothingham. 

A photo electrotype reproduction of an imaginative sketch, entitled : " A view 
of the First Meeting-House in Boston, 1632." 

William Lloyd Garrison, junior. 

Five photographic views of various localities in Boston, as they appeared 
prior to 1857, specified as follows : 

Franklin Street, north side, looking from Washington Street. 

Franklin Street, south side, showing the old entrance to Arch Street. 

The Archway on Franklin Street, with the building formerly occupied by the 
old Boston Library, incorporated in 1794. 

Franklin Street, with view of the old Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Holy 
Cross, and Federal street Church in background. 

Washington Street, at Milk Street, looking south. 

Mr. Joseph B. Glover. 

Portions of uniform and equipment formerly worn in the military organiza- 
tion known as the New-England Guards, specified as follows : 

One shako, with white pompon. 

One brass breast-plate. 

One cartridge-box. 

One bayonet scabbard. 

One patent leather clasp-belt. 

Two white cross-belts. 

Two sets epaulets. 

Hon. Samuel A. Green, M.D. 

A heliotype portrait of Hon. Samuel A. Green, M.D., Mayor of Boston, 1882. 

A fragment of red granite, quarried at Qiiincy, inscribed : " Samuel A. Green, 
M.D., Mayor of Boston, April 3, 18S2." 

A reproduction upon porcelain, of the reduction by Abel Bowen, entitled : 
"Bonner's Map of Boston in New England, 1722." 

William W. Greenough. 

Heliotype reproduction of Franqiicliii's '■'■Carte dc la villc, Bayc ct Environs 
de Baston,'' 1693. 

Curtis Guild. 

Twelve heliotype reproductions of old Boston buildings, after sketches made 
by George R. Tolman. 



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Three architect's drawings in india ink, specified as follows : 
View of American House, Hanover Street, erected 1S30. 
View of Revere House, Bowdoin Square, erected 1S44. 

View of Tremont House, corner of Tremont and Beacon Street, erected 1828, 
showing the projected Cupola, which was never placed upon the building. 

Charles Henry Hart, of Philadelphia, Penn. 

A copper-plate portrait entitled : "Gilbert Stuart, a;tat. 72. D. Edwin, sc 
after the original picture by John Neagle ; DulYee, printer, proof. 

David Greene Haskins, junior, of Cambridge. 

Heliotype reproduction of a sketch entitled: " Residence of Ralph Inman, 

Cambridge, Mass. 

T. T. Hauffer. 

Bill of Lading of the sloop Greyhound^ from Boston to Newberne, N. C, un- 
der date of Jan. 20, 1709. 

George Hemenway, 

An oaken tree-nail, taken from the original structure of the old frigate Consti- 
tution, built in Boston, upon the present site of Constitution Wharf, in 1794. 

Hamilton A. Hill. 

A copper-plate portrait of "Thomas Hollis, Esq., a liberal benefactor of 
Harvard College, in New England, died 1731." 

A copper-plate portrait of Benjamin Franklin, engraved by B. Tanner, after 
the oil painting by Cochin in 1777. 

Heliotype reproductions as follows : 

A proclamation issued by Louis Phillipe, July 29, 1830, addressed to the citi- 
zens of Paris, upon his arrival among them to lead the revolution of July. 

A letter from the Church at Plymouth, dated June 26, 1671, recommending 
John and INIary Winslow, (Mary Chilton of the Mavffozucr), and their children, 
to the fellowship of the Third Church, now the Old South Church of Boston. 

The result of an ecclesiastical council, called to settle the questions at issue 
between the First and Third Churches, dated May 28, 1674. 

Two heliotype reproductions from original manuscripts, specified as follows : 

An autograph copy of an order passed by the General Court of the Massachu- 
setts Colonj^ dated May 28, 1679, in answer to a prayer of the reverend Clergy 
for a revisal of the platform of discipline agreed upon by the Churches in 1647, 
and appointing "the second Wednesday in September, 1679," as the time when 
due consideration of such revision should be made. Written and signed by 
Edward Rawson, Secretary of the Massachusetts Colony. 

A letter recommending Samuel Adams to the charitv and fellowship of 
"the Church in Summer Street," signed by Rev. Peter Thacher, pastor of the 
Church in Brattle Square, June 8, 1789. 

Charles R. Hildeboukn, of Philadelphia, Penn. 

Etching of Ralph Inman, the loyalist of Cambridge, during the Revolutionary 
period. 

Robert William Hooper, M.D. 

A photographic view of the old King's Head Tavern, said to have been erected 
in i66q, in the reign of Charles the Second. Taken down in July, 1870, at which 



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time it was owned by the Lewis Wharf Company. This building stood on the 
corner of Ann, (the present North) and Lewis Streets. 

Samuel Dean Horton. 

Copper-plate portrait of Washington, Sar/ain, sc. 

Letter from the firm of Paul Revere & Son, written by Paul Revere to Enoch 
Horton of Boston, dated Canton, July 28, 1809. 

Colonel William Vincent Hutchings. 

Various swords, borne in the War of the Southern Rebellion, 1861-1865, speci- 
fied as follows : 

A Confederate sword, picked up on the field at the Battle of Newbern, North 
Carolina. 

A Confederate naval sword. 

A Federal staff-officer's regulation sword, in steel scabbard. 

An Infantry regulation sword, U, S. A., in steel scabbard, inscribed : "5. B. Jr. 
to W. V. H., 24ih Regt. N. E. G." 

A Texan bowie-knife, of Southern manufacture, taken at Roanoke Island. 

Arnold B. Johnson, of Washington D. C. 

A copy of an article written by him, as Chief Clerk of the Light-House Estab- 
lishment, United States Treasury Department, giving historical data relative to 
the earliest Light-Houses erected along the coast of America. 

Miss Susan B. Kidder. 
A wood-cut entitled : "Boston after the Great Fire," (Nov. 9-10, 1872.) 

William C. Lawrence. 

A relic of the Great Fire of Nov. 9-10, 1S72, taken from the ruins of the store 
of Homer, Bishop & Co , formerly standing at No. 112 Milk Street. 
William Parsons Lunt. 

Reproduction of an early map, entitled : "Old Boston, compiled from the Book 
of Possessions, by George Lamb." Heliotype Printing Co., Boston. 

Robert C. Mackay. 

A copper-plate print, entitled : "A View of the Year 1765, Boston : engraved, 
printed and sold by Paul Revere." A note upon the margin reads as follows: 
"This print belonged to R. C. Mackay, found among the papers of his grand- 
father, William Mackay, (died 1800,) one of the "Sons of Liberty," and owner 
of the Silver punch-bowl made for the "Sons of Liberty" in Boston. 

A reproduction in fac-simile of the Boston Gazette and Country Journal, of 
March 12, 1770, giving a detailed account of the Boston Massacre. 

Mrs. George W. Maunder, of Charlestown. 

A steel-plate print, entitled: "Boston Common," M. Osborne, sc. 

Electrotype reproduction of an old print, entitled : South view of the old 
Feather Store in Dock Square," erected 1680; razed i860. 
John Joseph May. 

Three Flemish tiles, appropriately framed, taken from one of the fire-places 
in the mansion of Lieutenant-Governor Thomas Hutchinson, formerly standing 
on Garden Court Street, North Square, taken down in 1S32, 
Rev. Samuel May, of Leicester. 

Lithographic portrait of the Rev. John Thornton Kirkland, D. D., LL.D., after 
the painting in oil by Gilbert Stuart. R. Peale, del. Pendleton's Lithography, 



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Frederick W. G. May. 

Lithographic print, by Biiford, entitled: "The Residence of Jeffrey Richard- 
son, corner of High and Pearl Streets, Boston, erected 1794-" 

Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company. 

A photographic view, looking from the corner of Congress Street, of the old 
building formerly numbered 50-52 State Street, occupied by the Massachusetts 
Hospital Life Insurance Company for a period of fiftj^-seven years, and taken - 
down in July, 1SS4. 

A photographic view, looking up State Street, towards the Old State House, 
of the old building formerly numbered 50-52 State Street, removed 1S84. 

His Worship the Mayor and the Honorable Corporation of Boston, 

Lincolnshire, England. 

Thirty-five photographic representations of bas. relief carvings upon the 
ancient stalls, or choir seats of Eoston Church, attributed to the monks in the 
thirteenth century; specified as follows : 

The early English Rose; a couchant Buck; a double-headed Eagle; an Eagle i 
with its head turned ; the Griffin : Clowns playing with Kittens ; a foliated de- 
sign ; a Bear Bait; Eagles picking their claws; Head ^vith curled beard; a man 
devoured by wohes ; a Lion and Dragon fighting; a Man attacking a Lion; 
Killing the Griflin; Bust of a Qiieen ; The Schoolmaster; A Man and Woman 
fighting; a Mermaid piping to a boat's crew; a Fox running away with the 
Geese ; a Monster with cloven feet and the head of a man ; the Portcullis of the 
Castle; a lilting helm in profile; Grotesque Head; a winged Dragon; a Dragon 
and Griflin in amiable converse; Killing the Unicorn; a foliated design; a 
Wolf as Priest, Reynard peeping in; Monkey with bottle; a Knight fully 
armed, charging a Wyvern with his lance ; two Swans, the heads forming a ducal 
coronet: a feat of Horsemanship — bending behind to pick up the horseshoe; 
the Pillar of Flagellation ; a hunt with Bow and Arrow ; a Burlesque upon organ 
playing. 

Unmounted photographs specified as follows: relating to Boston, England: 
View of Boston Church from the West ; the Church from the Cattle Market; 
general view showing Lincoln and Lindsay I3ank, White Hart Hotel, and build- 
ing of the Liberal Club ; the Pulpit in Boston Church, from which Rev. John,: 
Cotton preached; the Memorial in Boston Church to the late Professor Coning- 
ton ; the Chin-ch, and Herbert Ingram Monument; Inscription upon the Me-! 
morial Brass in Boston Church, commemorative of the Rev. John Cotton; : 
South Porch and Cotton Chapel of Boston Church; The Sessions House; 
View of old Wind, Corn and Flour Mills; the Ingelow House ; the Church 
House; the Cottage Hospital ; Old Flemish House before its restoration; Old 
Flemish House after its restoration ; the Baptist Chapel ; another view of the 
Cottage Hospital; Burton Hall; the Grammar School; View of the site of the 
new Dock ; View of Skirbeck Church, Lincolnshire. ', 

Steel and copper-plate prints, specified as follows : 

Steel-plate print, entitled: "Boston, Lincolnshire," choice proof, C. H. 
yccms, sc. Published by J. Morton, Market Place, Boston. 

Steel-plate print, entitled : "Boston, Lincolnshire." Published by J. Morton, 
Market Place, Boston. 

Copper-plate print, entitled: "Guildhall, Boston," R. Pollard, sc , 1819. 



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Copper-plate print, entitled : "Northeast view of Tattershall Castle, Lincoln- 
shire," B. Hovjlett, sc. iSoo, after a drawintj by T. Girtin. Reprint, 1S69, by 
J. Morton. 

Copper-plate print, entitled: "Tattershall Castle," B. Ho-vlett, sc. 1799, 
after a drawing by T. Girtin, from a sketch by B. Howlett. Reprint, 1S69. by 
J. Morton. 

Mks. Elizabeth L. Means. 

Two Holland Tiles taken from the old house formerly occupied by John 
Mayo and Cotton Mather, erected in 1656. 

The fan-light of the front door of the old house formerly occupied by John 
Mayo and Cotton Mather, erected in 1656. 

One of the carved wooden pilasters from the front of the old house of John 
Mayo and Cotton Mather, erected in 1656. 

John Meredith. 

A reproduction, entitled : "Heliotype view of Miller Building, Federal Street, 
Boston, as it appeared after the fire of December 28, 1S79.'' 

Thomas Minns. 

Photographic view of the present edifice of the "First Church in Boston." 

Captain Oreb F. Mitchell, Sergeant-at-arms of the Commonwealth. 

Two brass oil lamps of Doric pattern ; two pewter ditto. 

Three wooden inkstands. 

One slate inkstand. 

Rod and Chain of the Isaac Royall chandelier, which formerly hung in the 
Representatives' Hall of the Old State House. 

An old Book Case, inscribed : "The gift of Isaac Royall, Escf-' of Charle?- 
town." 

Alexander Moseley. 

Four photographic reproductions within one frame, of views of the Borough 
of Boston, Lincolnshire, England, taken in 1SS4, which are specified as follows : 

A reproduction of a rai-e copper-plate engraving owned in Boston, England, 
entitled : "The South-East view of Boston, in the County of Lincoln, 1750: To 
the Right Worshipful the Mayor and Corporation of Boston in Lincolnshire, 
this Prospect is Gratefully Inscribed, by their most obliged, Humble Servant, 
Nathan Drake." 

A panoramic view of the borough of Boston, Lincolnshire, taken in 1SS4. 

A reproduction of an old copper-plate view, showing the water-front of Bos- 
ton, Lincolnshire, at an early period, with Boston Church in the background. 

A view of the water-side of Boston, Lincolnshire, taken in 1SS4. 

A water-color drawing of Shodfriars' Hall, the ancient building standing on 
South Street, Boston, Lincolnshire, England, supposed to have been erected by 
Flemish merchants. Thomas B. Worth, del., 1SS4. 

The New England Guards Association, by Captain J. Putnam Bradlee, and 

Colonel William Vincent Hutchings, Trustees. 

Four silken ensigns formerly borne by the New England Guards, (^Char- 
tered, 1812), specified as follows: 

A Massachusetts State Flag, inscribed: "4th Battalion, ist Brigade, ist Div- 
ision, New England Guards." 



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A Battalion Color of white silk, inscribed: "New England Guards, instituted 
September 22, 1S12. Presented by S. Abbott Lawrence, October 30, 1S37." 

An Ensign of blue silk, displaying on its respective sides the shields of the 
states of New York and Massachusetts, and bearing upon the pole a silver plate 
engraved as follows : "Presented to the New England Guards on the occasion 
of their first visit to New York, July 31, 1S44, by the ex-members of the Corps ; 
residing in the city at the time." 

A National Ensign, lettered as follows : "4th Battalion, M.V.M." 

A silver Eagle, bearing the engraved inscription : "Presented by Gen. Arnold 
Welles, November, 1812." 

A gold medal, presented to the New England Guards by past members of the 
organization resident in Australia, inscribed- with the company motto. The, 
reverse bears the following inscription : "Presented to the New England Guards 
by Joshua Crane, James W. Fletcher, Moses H. Call, Charles S. Jenney. Mel- 
bourne, Australia, September, 1854." 

A gold medal, presented to the New England Guards by past members of the j 
organization resident in California, inscribed: "N. E. G. Instituted Sept. 22,: 
1812." The reverse bears the following inscription : "To the Guard in Boston, ; 
from the Old Guard in California. B. B. Gore, A. J. Almy, N. W. Knowlton, 
T. H. Borden, W. E. Moody, S. H. Whitmarsh, L.J. Wilder, N. H. Brown, 
N. L. Ingols, G. W. Nichols." 

A gold-plated gorget, bearing the State shield of Massachusetts in silver, 
worn by the successive commanders of the New England Guards, as the badge 
of office. 

An officer's mess-chest, of mahogany, containing articles of Camp Equipage, 
in use in 1812. 

Two six-pound brass field-pieces, mounted, bearing the following engraved j 
inscription: — "Cas^ at/d Mounted by Order of the Board of War, for the< 
New England Guards, 1814." Each piece likewise displays a representation! 
in relief, of the Indian figure exhibited upon the shield of the Commonwealth [ 
of Massachusetts. i 

A sponge rod and rammer. 

A mahogany ballot-box, silver-mounted, bearmg the initials, "N'.E.G.,'" and 
the engraved inscription: ^'Presented by B. F. Pickiiuin, Esq., 1814." | 

A knapsack, inscribed: ''B. 65." 

A canteen, inscribed: "N.E.G., 63." 

A representation of the shield formerly borne by the New England Guards, 
painted upon cloth, with the motto of the corps : "Our Nation's Honor the 
Bond of Union." 

A Company Guidon of blue silk, lettered as follows : "N. E. G., 1812." 

Grenville II. Norcross. i 

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Photographic views, as follows : J 

Mayor and Board of Alderman, 1862 and 1S67. 

Committee on Accounts, 1S67; raising eight hundred feet Cochituate water. 

pipe on Tremont Street, 1S67. ■ 

Board of Trade and Western Visitors, 1S65. ! 

Heliotype portrait of Hon. Samuel A. Green, M.D., Mayor of Boston, 18S2. 

Photographic portrait of the late Hon. Otis Norcross, Mayor of Boston, 1S67. 

A photographic portrait of Hon. Charles Wells, Mayor of Boston, 1832. 



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A steel-plate portrait of Richard Frothingham, born Jan. 31, 1S12. ^F. T. 
Stuart, sc. 

A copper-plate portrait of the Rev. Charles Lowell, D.D., born August 15, 
17S2 ; pastor of the West Church from 1806 to 1S61 ; died Jan. 20, 1861. Engrav- 
ed and Printed by J. Sartain, Pliila., after the painting in oil hy Chester 
Harding. 

A steel-plate portrait of the late Hon. John P. Healj, Citj Solicitor of Boston 
from 1S56 to 1SS2, born Dec. 28, 1810; died Jan. 4, 18S2. Metropolitan Printing 
and Engraving Company^ Neiv Tork. 

Fitch Edward Oliver, M.D. 

A heliotype reproduction of a portrait by "N. Emmons, Dec, 172S," entitled : 
"Mr. Andrew Oliver, Nat. March 29, 1706." 

RuFus S. Owen, of Chelsea. 

A fragment of wood, inscribed: "A piece of wood from the mammoth Coli- 
seum, erected in May, 1S69, for the Great Peace Jubilee, June 15,-19, 1869. De- 
stroyed by the great gale of September S, 1869." 

Charles W. Parsons. 

The iron standard upon which swung the Cockerel vane of the New Brick 
Church, formerly situated on Hanover, between Richmond and Prince Streets : 
Dedicated May 20, 1721 ; taken down and replaced by a stone gothic structure 
about 1843. 

Henry J. Parker. 

Seven photographic reproductions, enlarged, of buildings formerly used by 
the Masonic Fraternity in Boston, specified as follows : 

"Exchange Coffee House, built 180S; burnt 181S, raised from a wood-cut, 
executed by Abel Bowen. Occupied by Masonic Fraternity, 1817-1S18. 

Winthrop House, built 1845; destroyed by fire April 5, 1864. Freemasons' 
Hall occupied by Masonic Fraternity, 1859-1864. 

Old State House, after the cut in the Massachusetts Magazine, in 1791, show- 
ing the Washington Street end. Upper portion occupied by Masonic Fraternity, 
1821-1830. 

Nassau Hall, corner Washington and Common Streets. Occupied by Masonic 
Fraternity, 1858-1859, 

Old Masonic Temple, corner Tremont Street and Temple Place. Occupied 
by Masonic fraternity 1831-1858. 

Mason's Hall, upon Ann, (the present North) Street. Occupied by Masonic 
Fraternity, 1800-1817. 

Concert Hall, corner of Court and Hanover Streets. A portion of the build- 
ing was occupied by the Masonic Fraternity, 1754-1S07. 

Miss Abby L. Pierce, of Brookline. 

A photographic portrait of the late Rev. John Pierce, D.D., born in Dorches- 
ter, July 14, 1773 ; died August 24, 1849. 

Joshua H. Pitman. 

A steel-plate portrait of the Rev. Hosea Ballou, born April 30, 1771 ; died 
June 7, 1S52. ''Engraved by A. B. Walter, at J. M. Butler's Establishment, 
Jayne's Building, Phila." Published by James M. Usher, 37 Cornhill, Boston. 



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Mrs. Olive S. Plymptox. 

A lithographic portrait of the Rev. Samuel Barrett, pastor of the Twelfth 
Congregational Church, from iS::5 to 1S5S. E. W. Boiivi, lii/i., after a painting 
in oil by C. V. Bond. (The first and only edifice occupied by this Society was 
erected on Chambers Street, corner of Allen Street, in 1S24, and was occupied 
until 1S61, when the churchwas closed, and the corporate existence of the Society 
terminated in 1S63. The building is now occupied as a Roman Catholic Church.) 

Mrs. Rebecca DiiCARTERET Pratt, of Chelsea. 

Copper-plate print of the Hancock House, after a drawing by J. Davis, T. 
Dim an, fc. 

A stone bullet-mould of Revolutionary period, bearing the initials " E. P.,' 
with date 17S3. 

Edward Ellerton Pratt. 

Heliotype portrait of the late Rufus Choate, born in 1799; died 1S59, i^fter 
the engraving in Bro-vn's Life of Choate. 

Hon. Jonathan Preston. 

A correct copy, executed by Thoma<^ Starling, in London, in 1S33, of an 
original Dutch Map, engraved in Amsterdam, in 1659, entitled : "■ Novi Bclgii 
Novacque Angliac ncc non partis Virginiac tabula, viitltis in locis emcndata 
a Nicolao jfoannis Vissc/iero." Upon the lower margin, underneath this title, 
appears a colored print, entitled : ''N'ieiizv Amsterdam, oJ>'' Eylant Man/iattans.'" 

Rear Admiral George Henry Preble, U.S.N. 

Ten stereoscopic views of buildings and localities in Boston, specified as 
follows : 

Old Elm on Boston Common, looking towards Park Street Church, 

Statue of Edward Everett, in Public Garden. 

Statue of \'enus, in Public Garden. 

Ether Monument, in Public Garden. 

Old State House, showing east end decorated on the Centennial Anniversary 
of Battle of Lexington. 

The Great Procession marching down Washington Street, upon Centennial 
Anniversary of Battle of Bunker Hill. 

Panoramic \iew of Boston, looking East, from Bunker Hill Monument. 

Fountain in Sullivan Square, Charlestown, decorated upon Centennial 
Anniversary of Battle of Bunker Hill. 

Bunker Hill Avenue, Charlestown, decorated upon Centennial Anniversary 
ot Battle of Bunker Hill. 

St. Paul's Cliurch, Tremont Street, viewed from ^Llll. 

William G. Preston. 

A series of five photographic views enclosed in one frame, which are specified 
as follows : 

— A panoramic view taken from the tower of the Somerset Street, (First Bap- 
tist) Church, in 1SS2, looking towards the harbor, including the Post-Office and 
Mason Building. 

— A panoramic view, entitled : Charles River, Back Bay, and Mill-Dam, looking 
over State-House Cupola. 
— A photographic reproduction of an india-ink drawing, of the building known 



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as Jacob Sleeper Hall, erected upon the site of the Somerset-street Church, in 

1883. 

— The interior of Somerset Street Church, taken just before its removal, in 1SS2. 
— Somerset Street (First Baptist) Church, looking up from Pembcrton Square. 
Erected 1853 ; razed 1S82. 

Hon. Josiah Quincy, of Qiiincj. 

— A reproduction of an old copper-plate print, entitled : "A South-East View of 
j' Great Town of Boston, in New England, in America. Exact copy of an 
original engraving, (executed in 1743,) in the possession of Hon. Josiah Quincy, 
Jr., Dedicated to Peter Faneuil, by William Price. Published for E. Whitefield, 
by A. Tompkins, 38 Cornhill, Boston," 

— Two lithographic prints enclosed within one frame, entitled respectively: 
"View of the Western side of Lincoln Street and of Worcester Long Wharf, 
and other Channel Wharves on the South Cove;" and a map of "Boston, 1835, 
the South Cove Territory;' Pendleto7is Lithography, after drawings by P. P.F. 
DeGrand. The above were designed by P. P. F. DeGrand in 1S35, who was ridi- 
culed for his extravagant anticipations of the space that would be required for 
the Depot accommodations of the Boston and Worcester and Western Railroads, 
(now the Boston and Albany Railroad.) 

Daguerreotype view of the laying of the corner stone of the Beacon-Hill 
Reservoir, Nov. 22, 1847, with Mayor Qiiincy in the foreground. 

— An electrotype reproduction, made in 1S69, of an old copper-plate print, 
inscribed as follows : "To His Excellency William Burnet, Esq. This Plan of 
Boston in New England is humbly Dedicated by His Excellency's most obedient 
and humble Servant, Will Burgiss." Boston, N. Eng., Planted A.D. MDCXXX. 
Engraven by Thos. yohnsott, Boston, 1729. 

Josiah Quincy, junior. 

Representation of Great Elm on Boston Common, on veneer from the same, 
bearing a reproduction of a letter written by Hon. Samuel C. Cobb, Mayor of 
Boston, 1S76, testifying as to its being a portion of the original tree. 

General Samuel M. Quincy. 

An electrotype reproduction of the oil painting by Salmon, entitled: "Old 
State House in flames, 1832". 

Map of "The Town of Boston in New-England," no date given, but supposed 
to be about 1734. 

Miss Eliza Susan Quincy, of Quincy. 

Five colored lithographic prints, representing Beacon Hill and vicinity. y.H. 
Bufford, lith.; after the original views, drawn and engraved by I. R. Smith, in 
1811, which are specified as follows : 

— Beacon Hill, from Mount Vernon Street, near the head of Hancock Street. 
— ^^Beacon Hill, from the present site of the Reservoir, between Hancock and 
Temple Streets. 

— Beacon Hill, with Mr. (William) Thurston's house, from Bowdoin Street. 
— Beacon Hill, from Mount Vernon Street. 
— Beacon Hill, from Derne Street. 

— Southack's reduction of Bonner's Map of Boston, 1733, originally inserted in 
a large map of the New England coast in the English Pilot. London : 1737. 

Plan of Boston, with intrenchments of His Majesty's forces in 1775, by Lieut. 



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Page, of His Majesty's Corps of Engineers. Engraved and printed for William 
Fadden, Charing Cross, Oct. i, 1777. 

General Gage's Fortifications on Boston Neck, in 1775, reproduced from 
Penji$ylvania Magazine. 

— A sketch in india ink, entitled: "A view of the village of Qiiincy, and the 
Congregational Meeting-House, built in 1732, and taken down in 1S28; and of 
the monument to Josiah Quincj, junior, erected by his son in 1S04. Taken by 
Eliza Susan Qiiincy in 1823. President John Adams attended this church, and 
his funeral services there took place in 1826." 

— A sketch in india-ink, entitled: "A view of the house of President John 
Adams, with a view of Dorchester Heights and the town of Boston, and in the 
middle distance Arrow Head Hill, and the planting-ground of the Sachem, 
marked by the house of Josiah Qiiincy, erected upon it in 1770. Taken from 
President's Hill by Eliza Susan Q_iiincy, in 1S23. 

— A photograph of an india-ink sketch representing Mos-wachusett, or Arrow- 
Head Hill, in the town of Qiiincy, taken by Eliza Susan Qiiincy in 1S23. 
— A photographic portrait of Edward Bromfield, taken from a drawing made 
by Eliza Susan Qiiincy, after an original portrait by John Smibert. Born 1723, 
in the first house erected in Beacon Street, Boston, and died there, Aug. 16, 1745. 
He graduated from Harvard College in 1742, and constructed the first organ and 
microscope made in America. 

An old copper-plate print, after the painting in oil by John Trumbull, repre- 
senting the Battle of Qiiebec, (1775.) with explanatory diagram. Proof: Miiller, 
xc. "London: Published April, 179S, by A. C. DePoggi, 91 New Bond Street." 

An old copper-plate print, after the painting in oil bj' John Trumbull, represent- 
ing the Battle of Bunker Hill, (June 17, 1775,) with explanatory diagram. Proof; 
Mailer, sc. "London : Published April, 179S, by A. C. DePoggi, 91 New Bond 
Street." 

An old hand-colored copper-plate print, entitled : "The Bloody Massacre per- 
petrated in King Street, Boston, March 5, 1770, by a party of the 29th Regt." 
Engraved, printed and sold by Paul Revere." Upon the back of this engraving 
appears the following memorandum: "Given in 1S25 to Josiah Qiiincy, Jr., 
(1772-1S64,) by his aunt, Mrs. Storer, sister of Josiah Qiiincy, Jr., who defended 
Captain Preston." 

John P. Reed. 

A steel-plate portrait of George B. Doane, M. D., born about 1793; died in 
Boston, Apiil 13, 1S42. y. CJwuey, se., after the painting in oil by Badger. 

A steel-plate portrait, entitled : "Charles Cleveland, in his 91st year." N. 
Wright Smith, sc, after a photograph by Black. 

A lithographic portrait, entitled: "Wm. M. Rogers, Central Church." In- 
stalled as pastor, Aug. 6, 1S35. ]V. Sharp, del., after a miniature by Samuel L. 
Gerry. Printed and published by W. Sharp, Boston. 

A colored lithographic print, after a drawing by Joseph R. Richards, entitled : 
"View of flie new Alms House for the City of Boston, in the State of Massachu- 
setts, erecting on Deer Island, in Boston Harbor, 1S49. John P- Bigelow, Mayor. 
Designed by Louis Dwight and Gridley J. F. Bryant." J. F. Biijford, lith. 

A steel-plate portrait of Winslow Lewis, M D,, born July 8th, 1799; died 
August 3, 1S75. //. Wright Smith, sc. 

Five photographic views, showing localities visited by the great Boston fire, 
of Nov. 9-10, 1872, specified as follows : 



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A view of Summer Street from Washington, showing the ruins of Trinity 
Church and the store of Shreve, Crump and Low. 

A view of Devonshire Street, looking towards Milk Street. 

A view of the ruins on Summer Street, corner of High, looking towards 
New York & New England R.R. Station. 

A view of the north side of Summer Street, opposite Kingston Street. 

A view of the ruins of Trinity Church, Summer Street, from corner of Haw- 
ley Street. 

Jacob Rhodes. 

A lithographic print, entitled : " Old Warehouse, Dock Square, Boston, built 
i68o; taken down iS6o. L. Prang & Co , lith., 34 Merchants Ro-m, Boston. 

E. S. Ritchie. 

Five photographic views, taken from different points, of the old building for- 
merly standing upon the present site of the Boston Journal estate on Washing- 
ton Street. 

Samuel H. Russell. 

Copper-plate portrait of Benjamin Franklin, by Tanner, after the painting 
by Cochin, in 1777. 

A photographic view, of members of the Massachusetts Humane Society, (In- 
corporated Feb. 23, 1791,) taken about 1857. 

D. Waldo Salisbury. 

Photographic view of the third edifice of the "First Church in Boston," other- 
wise known as "the old Brick," erected in 1713; removed in 1808. The site ot 
this structure is now occupied by Rogers Building. 

Photographic view of Brattle Square Church, viewed diagonally from opposite 
Qiiincy House. Erected 1772; razed 1S72. 

Samuel E. Sawyer, of Gloucester. 

A photographic view, entitled: "Brookbank. Residence of Samuel E. Sawyer, 
of Gloucester, built by his ancestor, James Sawyer, 1714. The family home for 
five generations." 

Samuel S. Shaw. 

A broadside, issued in Boston, March 6, 1790, signed by William Thompson, 
offering himself to "the i-espectable citizens of Boston," as a candidate for the 
office of Town Clerk. 

A wood-cut, entitled: "View of Boston Common, Bunker Hill Monument, 
and the Procession, on the 17th of June, 1843. Entered according to Act of Con- 
gress, by J. Cook Howe, in the year 1S43.'' 

Thomas Sherman, of Chelsea. 

An engrossed parchment, dated at Boston, April 4, 1693, being an attested 
copy before the Hon. Isaac Addington, Register of Probate, of the "last Will 
"and Testament of George Worthilake, of the island commonly called and 
•known by the name of Pembertons Island, within the township of Boston, 
"in the Massachusetts Colony in New England." George Worthilake, first 
keeper of Boston Light, was drowned in Boston Harbor in 171S, while sailing 
up U) town. His body was recovered, and buried upon Copp's Hill. 



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Henry C. Short. 

A policy issued by the Massachusetts Fire and Marine Insurance Company, 
dated Boston, Nov. 2, 1S02, signed by Arnold Welles as President, and counter- 
signed by William Scollay as Secretary, with copper-plate frontispiece, y. 
Hill, sc, after a drawing by N. Hancock, showing a view of State Street at an 
early period. 

Joseph Simes, of South Plymouth, 

A lithographic portrait of Daniel Webster, from a drawing hy D. C. Johnston, 
after the painting by C. Harding. Pendleton s Lithography, Boston. Published 
by D. C. Johnston, 1S31. 

A photographic view of the Webster mansion at Marshfield. 

Daniel Simpson. 

Portrait in oil, taken from life, of Daniel Simpson, born in 1790, and still liv- 
ing, (1885 ) in South Boston. Drummer since 1799: Drummer in the War of 
1812 : Drummer in the 24th Massachusetts Volunteers in the War of the South- 
ern Rebellion : Druinmer for the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company for 
over seventy years, and for the New England Guards for over fifty years. Darius 
Cobb, finx. 

Andrew C. Slater, Executor of the Estate of Samuel Leeds. 

A granite ball, with leaden spire attached, which surmounted one of the towers 
of the well-known Triangular Warehouse, formerly standing at the head of what 
was in early times known as "the Town Dock," in the vicinity of the present 
Dock Squai-e. Built 16S0: taken down 1S24. 

Henry S. Smith. 

Specimen of the first Star Badge worn by the Boston Police, adopted in the 
mayoralty of Benjamin Seaver, in 1S53. 

James Rindge Stanwood. 

Commission of Cutting Lunt, as ensign of the foot company in the Essex 
Regiment of Militia. Given at the Council Chamber in Boston, May 21, 1751, 
under the hand and seal-at-arms of "William Shirley, Esq., Captain-General and 
Governor-in-Chief, in and over His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts- 
Bay in New-England." 

A wood-cut, entitled: "View of Faneuil and Qiiincy Halls, Boston, during the 
Great Fair, 1S50, (Sixth Exhibition of the Massacliusetts Charitable Mechanics 
Association.) with small map attached, entitled: "City of Boston, with part of 
East and South Boston," engraved by "Qiiiz." 

A lithographic print, showing Qiiincy Market at about 1S3S. Moore's Lithog- 
raphy. 

James H. Stark. 

A photo-electrotype view of the mansion formerly standing on Middle, (the 
present Hanover) Street, once the residence of John Mayo and Cotton Mather, 
erected in 1656. 

A photo-electrotype reproduction of a copper-plate print, which was issued in 
1799, showing State Street at an early period. 

W. H. Taylor. 

A leather fire-bucket, bearing the inscription: "John Cofiin Jones, 17S8." 



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Miss Anna E. Ticknor. 

A photographic view of the building Ivnown as the Ticknor Mansion, erected 
by Thomas Amory, at the corner of Beacon and Park Streets, about 1806. 

Rev. Robert C. Waterston. 

A photographic view of Boston Churcli, Lincolnshire, England, "R. Marsh, 
photographic chemist. Market Place, Boston." 

Joseph Weltch. 

A bill of carpentry dated "Boston, August y" 27, 1762, made out by John Jones 
against Thomas Edes, of Boston, for "Joyner Work done on Brig'teen Bristo.''' 

A receipt given by John S. Noble, in behalf of General H. Dearborn, Boston, to 
John Chaftee, military store-keeper at Springfield, Mass., under date Oct. 9, 1S14, 
for eleven barrels of cannon powder. 

Two old prices-current, dated respectively, "Charlestown, Sept. 30, 1815," and 
"Savannah, Dec. 31, 1818." 

Edward W. West, of New York City. 

A heliotype reproduction, considerably reduced, of an original mezzotint en- 
graving, inscribed as follows: "To the Merchants of Boston this View of the 
Light-House is humbly presented by their Humble Servant, Wm Burgis." W. 
Burgis, del. et fecit. 

William Willder Wheildon, of Concord. 

A lithographic plan, entitled : "Boston Water Works Extension. Map show- 
ing location of storage basins and proposed conduit." Charles H. Crosby & Co., 
159 Dorchester Avenue, Boston. 

A plan, entitled: "A plan of house-lots in the vicinity of Bunker-Hill Monu- 
ment, to be sold at Public Auction, without reserve, on Wednesday Sept. 25, 
1S39," illustrated by a lithographic engraving, showing plan of the proposed 
Square, with the Monument in the centre." Surveyed and drawn by S. M. Fel- 
ton." 

A series of five heliotype reproductions, reduced, of the views drawn and en- 
graved by /. R. Smith, illustrative of Beacon Hill, and showing the Monument, 
erected in 1790, and removed in 1811. 

A heliotype view of Christ Church, Salem Street, Boston, bearing upon its 
tower the memorial tablet erected by the City of Boston, October 17, 187S, with 
the following inscription, written by William W. Wheildon, of Concord, at the 
request of the city authorities : "The Signal Lanterns of Paul Revere, displayed 
in the steeple of this Church, April 18, 1775, warned the country of the march 
of the British troops to Lexington and Concord." 

A lithographic print by Pendleton, showing the Maverick House, at East Bos- 
ton, opened to the public in 1835, under the charge of Major Jabez W. Barton. 

A wood-cut, executed after photographs made by J. W. Black, entitled: "Pan- 
oramic view of the ruins after the great fire in Boston, (Nov. 9-10, 1872), from a 
point opposite Trinity Church, in Summer Street. 

A militia order of "the Infantry Company of Militarj' District No. 4, addressed 
to Benjamin Gleason, dated at Charlestown, April 20, 1805. 

A militia order of "the Infantry Company of Military District No. 4," 
dated Boston, September 29, 1S06. 

Fragment of one of the Paddock elms, formerly standing on Tremont Street, 
in front of the Granary Burial-ground. 



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Piece of the Post to which Washington tied his horse at fortifications on 
Boston Neck, when entering this city in 1789. 

Mrs. William Willder Wheildon, of Concord. 

A water color sketch of the present State House, Beacon Hill, taken in 
1S05, for Benjamin Gleason, the father of the donor. This view shows the old 
Beacon-Hill Monument in the background, and is one of the earliest representa- 
tions of the State House now extant. 

Richard Grant White, of New York City. 

A wood-cut view of the Old State House, showing the east end of the build- 
ing, as it appears from State Street, being an impression from the cut engraved 
for and published in the Century Magazine^ for March, 18S4. 

William H. Whitmore. 

A parchment bearing a conveyance signed by Elizabeth Rawlings, Relict and 
Administratrix of the Estate of Caleb Rawlings, late of Boston. Dated "the last 
Tuesday of April, 1694." 

A lithographic print h\ Pendleton, after a drawing by F. H. Lane, in 1835, 
entitled : "View of the old building at the corner of Ann Street, Boston." 

A series of six lithographic prints, of various subjects, from original designs. 
Pendleton s Lithography. 

A j^hoto-lithographic reproduction of an architect's drawing, entitled: "Latin 
and English High School Building, Boston, Mass.," George A. Clough, City 
Architect, Samuel J. Brown, del. Bujford's Photo. Process. "Appropriation 
passed the City Council, May 24, 1877 ; adopted by the School Committee, June 
12, 1877; approved by the Committee on Public Instruction June 22, 1877. 

A steel-plate print, entitled : "Custom House, Boston," C. H. Billings, del., 
y. Archer, sc. Published in 1850. Building finished and occupied in 1S48. 

A steel-plate print, entitled: "State House, Boston," A. J. Travis, del., y. Ar- 
cher, sc. Corner stone laid, July 4, 1795; building formally occupied by the State 
Authorities, in June, 179S. 

A lithographic print, entitled : "Gate of Mount Auburn Cemetery, (near Bos- 
ton, Mass.) Pendleton's Lithography, Boston. 

A photo-electrotype reproduction of a copper-plate engraving, entitled: "View 
of Boston, 178S." Callendcr, sculp., State Street, Boston. 

A woodcut plate from "The Naval Monument," published in Boston in 1S30, 
entitled: "The Wasp and Reindeer." A. Boiven, sc., after the painting by 
M. Corne. 

A wood-cut plate from "The Naval Monument," published in Boston in 1830, 
entitled : "Capture of the Essex." A. Bozven, sc, after the painting by M. Corne. 

A lithographic print, after the painting in oil bv J. W. A. Scott, entitled: 
"Boston Harbor, 1S53." J. '//. Bufford & Co., lith., 1834. 

A heliotype reproduction of a photographic view of the Council Chamber, in 
the Old State House, taken in 1881. 

A heliotype reproduction of a photographic view of the Representatives' Hall, 
in the Old State House, taken in 1881. 

An electrotype reproduction after a drawing entitled : Map of the Burnt Dis- 
trict, showing the area covered by the Great Fire of Nov. 9-10, 1872. "Published 
by Haskell & Adams, 61 Hanover Street, Boston." 



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An electrotype reproduction, after the lithographic print by Prang, entitled : 
"West View of the Old Feather Store." Built 1680; taken down i860. 

"Map of Boston, 1883, published for the Boston Directory, Sampson, Daven- 
port & Co., 155 Franklin Street. Forbes Co., litli. 

A heliotype portrait of Hon. Albert Palmer, Mayor of Boston, 1883. 
A lithographic print, showing the south side of the Old State House. Tappan 
& Bradford, lith. 

A framed copy of a poem, by Benjamin Drew, entitled : "The Grasshopper 
vane on Faneuil Hall." 

A steel-plate portrait, entitled: "Saml. G. Drake, ^tatis 58, An. 1857. ob. 
1875." "Presented to the subscribers to the Folio Edition, (^History a?id Atittqui- 
ties of Boston,) by a few friends of the Author." Engraved by S. A. Sc/io/f. 

An impression from a copper-plate bill-head of "John Hancock, Commission 
Merchant, Boston." Corbould £• Hemsley, 37 Foster Lane. 

A copper-plate portrait, entitled : "John Winthrop, second Governor of Mas- 
sachusetts." Born Jan. 12, 1588; died March 26, 1649. O. Pelton, sc. 

A steel-plate engraving, entitled : "Old State House, Boston," American Bank 
Note Company, sc. 

A lithographic print of the present City Building, entitled : "City Hall, Bos- 
ton, Mass., commenced in 1862, Joseph M. Wightman, Mayor; completed in 
1S65, Frederic W. Lincoln, junior, Mayor; Gridley J. F. Bryant and Arthur 
Oilman, Architects." y. T. Powers & Co., lith., after a drawing by Carl Fehmer. 
A heliotype reproduction of an architect's drawing, entitled : "City of Boston, 
Perspective view of Pumping Station Buildings." Samuel J. Brown, del., 1881. 
George A. Clough, City Architect, 1882. 
Electrotype reproductions as follows : 

View from Fort Hill, after the water-color sketch by W. T. B. Dobbins, in 1S07. 
View of Jonathan Phillips estate, after the sepia drawing made by G. L. 
Brown, in 1836. 

Pemberton Hill, from the late Gardner Greene's garden, about 1826. 
State Street in 1804, after the painting by J. B. Marston. 

Diagram, entitled: "Old State House, State Street, Boston; plan of second 
floor, showing circular staircase, hall, and the four ante-rooms adjoining, also 
representing in dotted lines the original oak framing around the staircase 
opening. All of these indications were found in the restoration of 1881." 
An electrotype view of the Boston City Hospital. 

A steel-plate portrait of Benjamin Franklin, born in Boston, Jan. 17, 1706; 
died in Philadelphia, April 17, 1790. R. L. Babson and J. Andrews, sc, after 
the painting by Duplessis. 

Bartlett's illustrated map of Boston, C. H. Bartlett, lith.,\S']i. 
A wood-cut, entitled : "The Mayor and Aldermen of Boston, 1S53." 
A copper-plate portrait of Rev Joseph Sewall, pastor of the Old South Church, 
from 1713 to 1769; died June 27, 1769. 

A lithographic portrait, entitled: "Rev. Sebastian Streeter : To the First 
Universalist Society in Boston, this porti-ait is respectfully dedicated, by the 
Teachers of the Sabbath School." E. W. Bouve, lith. His pastorate covered 
the period between 1824-1867. 

An electrotype reproduction of an engraving on copper, by Paul Revere, enti- 
tled "A view of the Obelisk erected under Liberty Tree in Boston, on the rejoic- 
ings for the repeal of the Stamp Act, 1766." 
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A badge worn by a member of tlie Committee of the Boston City Government 
at Washington, upon occasion of President Garfield's funeral, Sept 23, 1S81. 

A badge used at the Garfield Memorial service, held in Tremont Temple, 
Boston. 

A copy of the resolutions passed by the Honorable Artillery Company of Lon- 
don, on receipt of the tidings of the death of President Garfield. 

An engraved invitation from the City Government of Boston, to attend the 
ceremony of rededication of the Old State House, July 11, 1SS2. 

A photographic view, showing front of old City Hall, with Franklin Statue in 
foreground. 

Plans of Boston from actual survey by Osgood Carleton, for 1796 and 1803; 
another plan of Boston, no date given; Plan of Boston, engraved for the 
United States Hotel, no date given; Plan of Boston for the year 1S34: View of 
the City of Boston, 1879; Map of the business portion of Boston, 1883. 

Plan of Back Bay, showing its proposed improvement, Feb 8, 1877. 

A heliotype reproduction, showing State House and Park Street Church from 
the Common, with the Old Elm in foreground. 

A copy of the inscriptions upon the bronze tablets placed on the older Burial- 
grounds in Boston. 

A wood-cut, entitled : "Views on Boston Common." 

A heliotype reproduction, greatly reduced, of the First Charter of Massachu- 
setts, granted by King Charles the First, March 4, 1629. 

A lithographic portrait by Bouve, of Thomas A. Davis, Mayor of -Boston, 
1845. 

A lithographic view of Minot's Light, destroyed in the gale of April 16, 185 1. 

A copper-plate portrait, entitled: "His Excellency John Adams, President of 
the United States of America." Dra-vn and engraved by H. Houston. Pub- 
lished by D. Kennedy, Philadelphia. 

A heliotype reproduction, entitled: "St. Botolph's Church, Boston, England 
from an original engraving, presented to Mrs. Watson, by J. Noble, Mayor of 
Boston, Old England." 

A composition medal, commemorative of the centennial anniversary of the 
the battle of Bunker Hill, upon June 17, 1775. 

A composition medal, commemorative of the centennial anniversary of the 
Signing of the Treaty of Peace between Great Britain and America, in 17S3. 

A Boston School medal, of silver, date of 1865. 

Arthur W. Willard. 

Photographic portrait of His Excellency, Governor John Hancock, after a 
painting in oil by John Singleton Copley. 

Justin WiNSOR, of Cambridge. 

A heliotype reproduction of an india-ink portrait in the possession of the 
Harvard College library, entitled: "The Rev. Dr. Cotton Mather, p. Sarah 
Moorhead." 

Charles Henry Wise. 

Steel-plate view of Bunker Hill Monument, E. A. Fowle, sc. 

A lithographic portrait of General Joseph Warren. 

A lithographic print, showing the birth-places of John and John Qj.nncy 
Adams. 



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A copper-plate portrait, entitled: "His Excellency, Caleb Strong, LL.D. , elected 
in 1813 Governor of Massachusetts for the Ninth time, by the Free Suffrages of 
his fellow-citizens." /. R. Smith, sc, W. M. S. Doyle, pinx. "Boston : Published 
by I. R. Smith, June 7, 1S13." 

William Woolley. 

Heliotype reproductions, specified as follows : 

"View of the Post Office, City Hall, etc.," (then located in Old State House,) 
taken from the south-west in Washington Street, about 1835, after a lithographic 
print executed by Pendleton, from the drawing made by William Hunt, M.D. 

Six views of the Old State House at different periods, considerably reduced 
from the original prints, and struck upon one sheet, viz: Bozvcns Picture, iSt,o; 
Map o/"i835; "Siwiv's Geography, 1830;" '■'■Hale's Surrey, 1814;" '■^State Street 
riid, 18S0;" ^'Washington Street end. 1880." 

View of State Street as it appeared in 1S04, after the original painting by J. B. 
Marston. 

View of Old State House, showing the Washington Street end, after the 
original wood-cut exhibited in the Massachusetts Magazine, for 1791. 
'View of Old State House, Boston, about A. D. 1S50." 



LOAN COLLECTION. 



C. Henry Adams. 

A carved representation of the Arms of the Painters' Guild, of Enghind, 
Ireland and Scotland, 1755, brought to this country by Christopher Gore, after- 
wards Governor, and which at one time hung upon a building in the locality of 
the present Scollay Square. 

C. S. Andrews. 

A promissory note of "the State of Massachusetts-Bay,'' for the amount of 
£15. Dated Boston, January 18, 1779, and signed by "H. Gardner, Treasurer." 

GusTAvus Andrews, of Lynn. 

A portrait in oil of Geoi'ge Reed, Constable of Boston from 1809 to 1839, "^^'^^^ 
the exception of two years' intermission, jfo/iiison, finx. 

A broadside, containing an extract from the Laws of the General Court of 
Massachusetts, passed Nov. 17, 17S7, relative to Articles of Excise and Import. 

General Samuel Andrews. 

A colored print, exhibiting the uniform of the military organization known as 
the Boston Light Infontry, as worn in 1S33, with figure in background, show- 
ing the first uniform adopted by the company. 

Boston Veteran Firemen's Association. 

An old leather fire-bucket formerly owned by Charles Jones, of Boston, and 
which was used at the Beacon Street fire, July 18. 1824. 

City of Boston. 

A settee made from the wood of the Old Elm, formerly standing on Boston 
Common, blown down in the gale of Feb. 15, 1876. 

A crayon portrait of Sir Moses Montefiore, Bart., Rayticr, del. "Presented to 
the City of Boston by Alfred A. and Kate Marcus, on the ninty-ninth birthday 
of the venerable philanthropist." 

An arm-chair, constructed from palmetto wood, bearing the following carved 
inscription : "To the City of Boston, from Mayor Courtenay, of Charleston, 
Boston, 1630; Charleston, 1670." 

An oil painting, entitled: "Laying of the corner-stone of the Beacon-Mill 
Reservoir, Boston, November 22, 1847." This structure was erected in the 
Mayoralty of Josiah Quincy, and removed in that of Hon. Albert Palmer, 1S83. 
M. Wight, pinx. 

Deed of transfer of the Commonwealth's share in the ownership of the Old 
State House, dated April 28, 1803, signed by Enoch Titcomb, Aaron Hill and 
Nicholas Tillinghast, the committee appointed by the General Court to execute 
the transfer. 

Twenty-four mahogany arm-chairs, first used by the Senate in 179S. 

Twenty-six mahogany arm-chairs, and six settees. 



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Resolution of sympathy with the citizens of Boston, passed by the borough 
of Birmingham, England, upon receipt of the news of the great fire, Nov. 9-10. 
1S72. 

An original india-ink drawing, entitled: "Plan of Boston Common, showing 
the kind and position of each tree, and every other object of importance, from 
actual survey made under the direction of the Chief Engineer, December, 1S51." 
M. W. NicolU del. 

A lithographic print, entitled: "View of the New Jail for Suffolk County in 
the State of Massachusetts, erecting by the City of Boston, upon Charles and 
North Grove Streets, 1848." Gridley J. Y. Bryant, architect. Bufford. litli., 
after a drawing by H Billings. 

A sepia drawing, entitled: "Design for an enlargement of Suffolk County 
Registry of Deeds and Probate offices, to afford additional accommodation for 
the offices and an additional story for the occupation of the Chief Engineer. 
Gridley J. F. Bryant, architect, February, 1859." 

A photographic reproduction of a copperplate portrait of John Phillips, first 
Mayor of Boston, 1822. 

A steel-plate portrait of Josiah Qiiincy, Mayor, 1S23-2S. — //. W. Smith, sc, 
after a painting by Stuart. 

A photographic reproduction of a copper-plate portrait of Josiah Qiiincy, 
Mayor, 1823-28. 

A photographic portrait of Harrison Gray Otis, Mayor, 1829-31. 

A photographic portrait of Charles Wells, Mayor, 1832-33. 

A photographic portrait of Samuel Turell Armstrong, Mayor, 1836. 

A photographic portrait of Martin Brimmer, Mayor, 1843-44. 

A photographic portrait of Joshua Bates, a benefactor of the Public I^ibrary. 

A photographic portrait of Charles Sumner, born 181 1 ; died 1S74. 

A photographic view of the Monument on the Public Garden, commemorative 
of the discovery of Ether. 

A steel-plate print, showing the statue of Benjamin Franklin, in front of City 
Hall. Smith, Knight & Tap fan, sc, after a drawing by H Billings. 

Reproduction of an old copper-plate print, entitled: "A South-east view of 
y' Great Town of Boston, in New England, America, 1843. Dedicated to 
Peter Faneuil, by William Price." Published for E. Whitefield, by A. Tomp- 
kins, 38 Cornhill, Boston. 

A photographic view, taken on Boston Common, representing the officers and 
sailors of the Russian Naval Squadron which visited Boston in 1864, during the 
mayoralty of Frederic W. Lincoln, junior. 

A carved representation of the Seal of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay, 
granted March 4, 1629. 

A carved representation of the Arms of the State of Massachusetts, adopted 
December 13, 1780. 

Abr.^iM E. Brown. 

A copy of "The Uhter County Gazette., published in i8oo, containing an 
account of the funeral of Washington at Mount Vernon. 

George Brown. 
A Tinder-box, with Flint and Steel. 
A lantern of perforated tin, Paul Revere pattern. 



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A tin candlestick, with box of &ame material in which to keep spare candles, 
all of the articles named having been used in Boston in 1817. 

Mrs. T. QyiNCY Browne. 

A painting in oil, upon one of the panels from the wainscotting of the Han- 
cock House, after the picture bj Sully, representing the Beacon Hill Monument, 
erected in 1790, and taken down in iSii. 

Seth Bryant, of Wollaston. 

Clearance of the schooner Ncxvhuiy from the port of Boston, under date of 
April 5, 1765, signed by William Sheafte, Deputy Collector. 

Thomas O. H. P. Birnham. 

The old hall clock of the Rev. Mather Byles, first pastor of Hollis Street 
Church, made by Gatvcn Broivii, Boston, upon King (the present State) Street, 
in 1750. 

John B. Callender. 

A miniature cottage, constructed in 1S55, from the wood of the Old Elm on 
Boston Common. 

Capt. John Codman. 

A portrait in oil of the Hon. John Codman, a Boston merchant of the Revolu- 
tionary period, born 1755; died 1S03. John Singleton Copley, pi nx. 

Daniel J. Courtney. 

An oil painting, after the original picture by Salmon, entitled: "Old State 
House in flames, 1832." 

John S. Damrell, Trustee. 

Pastel of Major Thomas Melvill, said to have been executed by John Singleton 
Copley. 

Official staff of Major Melvill as Fire-ward of Boston, 1779-1825. 

The three-cornered hat said to have been worn by Major Melvill at the 
Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770. 

A. F. Delano, of Centre Marshfield. 

A Qiiadrant, inscribed: Made by Benjamin Condy, in Philadelphia, 1761, for 
Capt. William Morton." 

A small volume (partially incomplete), containing several sermons, the first 
being entitled : "A Sermon Preach'^- in the Old Meeting House in Boston, on 
September, 30, 171 1, Being the last that was there delivered before that House 
was Burnt, Octob: 2, 171 1." 

A copy of "The North-American Almanack for the Year of our Lord Christ, 
1776." 

John L. D'Wolfe and Mrs. Nancy M. Downer. 

An oil painting, entitled: "The late Thomas Melville, Esq^'' House, June 20, 
1832." Salmon, pinx. 

Miss Caroline M. Fitch. 

A wooden model of the mansion known as the Faneuil-Phillips house, for- 
merly standing upon Common (the present Tremont) Street, opposite King's 
Chapel. 



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Ward Brooks Frothingiiam. 

A photographic view of the fourth edifice of the "First Church in Boston," 
erected in Chauncy Place, iSo8, razed 187 1. 

His Excellency the Governor. 

An engrossed parchment, dated December 8, 18S3, being an attestation from 
the archives of the Executive Department, and the office of the Secretary of 
State, as to the verity of the table of the Executive Council before the Revolu- 
tion, sent by His Excellency Benjamin F. Butler, Governor, with advice and 
consent of the Council, to be preserved in the Old State House. 

His Excellency the Governor and the Honorable the Council of the 
Commonwealth. 
The table of the Executive Council before the Revolution, removed from the 
Old State House to the new structure upon Beacon Hill in 1798. 

Hon. Samuel A. Green, M.D. 

A hand-colored copper-plate portrait, entitled: "The Hon'''" John Han- 
cock, Esq'., late President of the Continental Congress." Born 1738; died 1793. 

A hand-colored copper-plate print, engraved by Paul Revere, entitled: "A 
view of part of the Town of Boston in New-England, and Brittish Ships of 
War landing their Troops, 176S " 

Curtis Guild. 

The Commission issued to John Brooks, of Medford, (later Governor of 
Massachusetts, 1816-1823, ) as Marshal for the District of Massachusetts. 
Signed by George Washington, President of the United States, and counter- 
signed by Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State. Dated at Philadelphia, Nov. 7, 
1791. 

A letter written by John Endecott, Governor of the Colony of the Massachu- 
setts-Bay, to the Governor of a neighboring Colony, asking for the surrender of 
the persons of the regicides Goffe and Whalley. Dated Boston, 6th May, 1661. 
Although nothing on this manuscript states the fact, little doubt exists that 
this letter was addressed to Peter Stuyvesant, Governor of the then Province of 
New Netherland, under the States-General of Holland. In 1664, the sway of 
the Dutch was succeeded by the authority of the British Crown, and the major 
portion of this territory became the Province of New York. 

J. J. Enneking. 

A portrait in oil of the late George Fuller, y. jf. Etineking, pinx. 

Luther L. Jenkins. 

Lithographic print, by Prang, of the Old Warehouse in Dock Square, later 
known as the Old Feather Store. Erected 16S0; removed i860. 

Herbert W. Kimball. 

A portrait in oil of Daniel Webster, born 1782 ; died 1S52. 

William C. Lawrence. 

A pamphlet, entitled: "The Prodigal Daughter." Boston: Printed at the 
Bible and Heart, in Cornhill. No date given. 

A silver Franklin school medal, inscribed : T//e Gift of Franklifi, MDCCXC. 
Reverse: "Awarded to Charles C. Haven, 1S52." 



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Charles Libbev. 

A lithographic print, by Bufford, published in iSs4. \\ ilh accompiinying kev, 
after the sketch by Freeman Richardson, entitled: '"Environs of Boston, from 
Corey's Hill, Brookline." 

Mrs. JoiiN S. Lockwood. 

A copper saucepan once owned by Benjamin Franklin, given by his sister, 
fane Franklin Mecom, to Benjamin Sumner, who adminstered upon Franklin's 
estate. 

A daguerreotype portrait of Benjamin Sumner, 3d, Treasurer of the Town of 
Boston. 1803-1S05, taken at the age of forty. 

George W. Maunder, of Charlestown. 

A pair of iron-bowed spectacles, worn in Boston at the period of the Ameri- 
can Revolution. 

H. L. Narramore, of Sharon. 

An iron Fire-back, bearing a medallion likeness of King George the Third, 
and the trade-mark: "H. W. Stiegel, Elizabeth Furnace, 1769." 

C. O. Pratt, of Dorchester. 

An iron Fire-back from one of the chimney pieces of the Hancock House, 
taken from that building in 1863, bearing upon it in raised figures the date 1737, 
that of the house's erection. 

An old canvas bag, formerly used by one of the Fire-wards in Boston, for 
removal of property at fires, inscribed : "W.Cranch, 1792, No. i ;" "B.Willis, jr., 
1794, No. I ;" "J. Thaxter, No. i." 

Miss Eliza Susan Qluncy, of Qiiincy. 

A portrait in oil of George Washington, born 1742; died 1799. Gilbert 
Stuart , piiix. 

Estate of Hon. Josiaii Qltincy. 

A portrait in oil of Josiah Qiiincy, junior, the patriot, born 1744; died 1775. 
Gilbert Stuart , piiix. 

Daguerreotype, representing the Mayor and Aldermen of Boston, 1848, as 
follows : Mayor, ]o?,\a\\ Qiiincy, junior; Aldermen, Moses Grant, Billings Briggs, 
Frederick Gould, William Pope, Henry B. Ropes, John Hathaway, J. H. Wilkins, 
John P. Ober; City Clerk, S. F. McCleary; City Marshal, Francis Tukey. 

Warren G. Roby, of Wayland. 

One of the old arm-chairs formerly in the Council Chamber of the Old State 
House. 

Samuel H. Russell. 

A water-color drawing of the old parsonage of Brattle Square Church, formerly 
standing upon Court Street, on the site of the building at present occupied by 
the Adams Express Company, y. F. Fuller, del., 1S55. 

The Commission of Nathaniel P. Russell of Boston, as Ensign in the 
sub-legion of Light Infantry, M. V. M., signed by Gov. Caleb Strong, under 
date of March 31, 1S07. 

A copper-plate portrait of Benjamin Franklin, B. Tauucr, sr., following the 
painting by Cochin in 1777. Published in Philadelphia in 1823. 



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W. B. Sears. 

A photographic view, entitled : "Beal's Photographic View of Boston, from 
the top of Grand Junction Elevator, East Boston." New York: 1S77. J. H. Beal, 
Photographer, 116 Beekman Street. 

Samuel S. Shaw. 

An old parchment bearing a transfer by Richard Dana, in 1652, of a large 
tract of land in the town of Cambridge. 

Daniel Simpson. 

A Drum beaten by John Robbins, at the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775, 
bearing upon its side the date 1771, with motto : '■'Aiit vincere aut mori." 

The Standing Committee of the Old South Church. 

A tombstone of blue Welsh slate, inscribed: "Here Lyeth y« Body of 
William Middle'""- Aged 74 Years; Died March y« 3d, 1699." 

Robert Cary Stearns. 

A painting in oil, representing the China punch-bowl from which punch was 
drank at the house of Benjamin Edes, upon the afternoon preceding the 
destruction of the Tea, at Griffin's Wharf, Boston, December 16, 1773, by the 
citizens, who, disguised as Indians, engaged in that transaction. 6". Adams, 
piitx. 

Herman B. Tewksbury, of Winthrop. 

A notification of the rejoicings ordered by the Town of Boston, for Monday, 
May 19, 1766, in honor of the repeal of the Stamp Act by the British Parlia- 
ment. Dated May 16, 1766, and signed by William Cooper, Town Clerk. 

A Broadside announcing the surrender of Lord Cornwallis and his army, 
printed at Boston, Oct. 26, 1781, by N. Willis. 

A Warrant from Harrison Gray, Treasurer of the Province of Massachusetts- 
Bay, to John Tewksbury, as Constable and Collector of Chelsea, Dec. 31, 1772. 

A notification to the citizens of Boston, to meet in Faneuil Hall, to fill the 
Town quota for the Continental Army, April 25, 17S1. Signed by William 
Cooper, Town Clerk. 

Amos K. Tilden. 

A photographic view of Christ Church, Salem Street, Boston, taken in 1863, 
showing the edifice before the memorial tablet was placed upon its tower. This 
church possesses a fine chime of bells, upon one of which appears the following 
inscription : "We are the first Ring of Bells cast for the British Empire in North 
America, A. R. 1744." 

The United States Government, by Major Charles W. Raymond, Engineer 
Corps, United States Army, in command of Boston Harbor. 
An old Scandinavian ship's bell, believed to have been cast in the province 
of Dalarnc, in Sivedoi, and bearing the inscription, in raised capital letters of 
Swedish script : ''Till Horig Skeppet Patrioten " The dimensions of the bell 
are as follows : Circumference at top, i foot 6| inches ; at centre, 2 feet; at rim, 
3 feet, 7 inches. Height, 11.^ inches. Weight, 59 pounds. 

Mrs. E. a. W. Wales, of Dorchester. 

A frilled bosom shirt, originally owned and worn by His Excellency John 
Hancock, President of the first American Congress, and later, first Governor of 
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the State of Massachusetts, (1780 to 1785.) Born in 1737 or 1738; died Oct. 8, 

1793- 

A brass gorget, gold-plated, bearing an engraved representation of the Arms 
of King George the Third, and which is said to have been worn by a British 
officer at the period of the American Revolution. 

John Wild, of South Braintree. 

A quadrant made by Samuel Thaxter, at the corner of Broad and State Streets, 
Boston, in 1792. 

Rev. William C. Winslow. 

The brass door-knocker from the old Winslow House at Marshfield, Massa- 
chusetts, formerly occupied by Governor Winslow, of the Plymouth Colony. 
Engraved inscription: "From the Winslow House, Marshfield, Mass: came in 
Mayfiovjcr, 1620; presented by Hon. Daniel Webster to Dr. G. Winslow, Sept. 
12, 1850." 

The Marriage Intentions of Rev. Lyman Beecher and Miss Lydia Jackson, 
dated at Cambridge, Oct. 7, 1S36. 

William H. Whitmore. 

A map, entitled : "Boston : Bird's eye view from the North. J. H. Backmaf/, 
del. et liih. Copyright, 1877, by L. Prang & Co. 

A lithographic print, entitled: "View of Boston in 1848, from East Boston." 
C. Burton, del. Published by E. Whitefield. 

A painting in oil, entitled : View of Boston from the Chelsea Naval Hospital. 
DcG ra illy , f> in x . 

A painting in oil, entitled: "A view of the United States Navy Yard at 
Charlestown." George Curtis, pinx. 

A pitcher of blue earthen-ware, bearing upon its side a representation of the 
present State House. 

A mezzotint portrait of King George the Second, (born 16S3 ; ^i^d 1760,) 
entitled: ^'■Georgius, D. G. Mag: Brit: Fran: et Hib : Rex F. D. Brun: et 
Lunen : Dux S. R. I. Arch: Thesaur : et Princeps Elector etc. Inauguratus 
20 die Octobris, 1714." G. Kneller, baronet, pinx. 1719. P. Pelliam, fecit, 1720, 
cum privilegio regis. Sold by E. Cooper, at the 3 pigeons, in Bedford Street. 

A mezzotint portrait, entitled : " The true Effigies of the Mo^t Illustrious 
Princess Anna Sofkia of Hanover, declared by a late Act of Parliament for 
settling the Succession in y^ Protestant line to succeed to the Croxvn of Eng- 
land, after Her Alatie ^uecn Ann and her Royal Issue. Done from ye original 
brought from Hanover by y' Right Honble Tho: L<t Raby, and dedicated to his 
Lordshipp by his most humble servant I. B." Sold by lohn Bowles, opposite 
to Stocks Markt. etc., and at Mercers Hall, Cheapside. /. Simon, fecit, cum 
privilcgio. 

An old copper-plate print entitled : "A Prospective Plan of the Battle fought 
near Lake George upon the 8th September, 1755, etc." Thomas Johnston, sc, 
after the sketch by S. Blodget. dedicated to His Excellency, Governor Shirley. 

A mezzotint portrait entitled: "Thomas Pownall, Esq'- Member of Par- 
liament, late Governor, Captain-General and Commander-in-Chief and Vice 
Admiral of His Majesty's Provinces Massachusetts-Bay and South Carolina, 
and Lieut. Governor of New Jersey." Earlom, fecit, after the painting by 
Coles. London: Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, 53 Fleet Street, as the 



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Act directs, 5th June, 1777. Representation of the Pownall arms upon the 
margin. 

A steel-plate portrait of Sir Edmund Andros, Governor-in-Chief over New 
England from June 3, 16S6, to April iS, 16S9, after the original picture in the 
possession of Annas Charles Andros, Esq., of London. 

A water-color drawing of Fort Hill. W. T. B. Dobbins, del., 1807. 

A sepia drawing of the Jonathan Phillips estate, now Tremont Street and 
Pemberton Square. G. L. Brown, del., 1S36. 

A photographic view of the residence of the late Gardiner Greene, formerly 
standing upon Pemberton Hill. 

A lithographic print by L. H. Bradford, entitled: "Beacon Street, Boston, 
1S43," showing the residences of Thomas Dixon and B. P. Homer. 

An unfinished Plan of Boston, found among the papers of A. Bowen, collected 
in 1S27-2S. 

A steel-plate print, entitled : "Boston and its Environs." y. Poppel, sc, 
Munic/i, 1S59. 

A paper found in the Faneuil Hall Grasshopper vane, reading as follows : 
"Shem Drowne made itt. May 25, 1742 : To my Brethren and Fellow Grass- 
hoppers. Fell in y<' year 1753, Nov. 13, by a great Earthquake, by my old Mas- 
ter above. Again like to have met with my Utter Ruin by Fire, but hopping 
timely from my Publick Scituation came off with broken bones, and much 
Bruised. * * * * Cured and fixed * * * * qj^j Master's son, Thomas Drowne, 
June 28, 1768, and though I will Promise to Discharge my Office, yet I shall vary 
as y" Wind." 

A heliotype reproduction of a copper-plate certificate of membership, en- 
graved by Paul Revere, of the artillery organization known as His Majesty's 
Inlisted Montrosses, with views of the North and South Batteries in foreground. 

A heliotype reproduction of a sketch by George F. Loring, entitled: "Old 
State House as it was and as it is." Published in 1S76, before the restoration. 

Broadside, entitled : "^4 F'ezv Lines on occasion of the untimely End of Mark 
and Phillis, -who -were executed at Cambridge, September iS, (-/^/Jj), for 
Poysoning their Alaster, Capt. fohn Codman, of Charlestozvn." 

A mezzotint portrait, entitled: "■ lonathan Mayhew, D. D., pastor of the 
West Chvrch, in Boston, in Neiv England, (^1^4^-1766^, an assertor of the 
Civil and Religiovs Liberty of his covntry and mankind, zuho, overplied by 
fvblic energies, died of a Nervovs Fever, Ivly VIII, MDCCLXVI, aged 
XXXXV.'' I. B. Cipriani, sc., MDCCLXVII. 

A mezzotint portrait of Rev. Cotton Mather, pastor of the North Church, 
16S4-1728. '■^Cottonus Matherus, S. Theologia: Doctor liegice Societatis Lon- 
dinensis Socius, et Ecclesice apud Bostotium Nov-Anglorum nuper Prcepositus.^' 
yEtatis sues LXV, MDCCXXVII. P. Pelham ad vivum pinxit ab origin 
Fecit et excud." 

A mezzotint portrait of Rev. Thomas Prince, pastor of the Old South 
Church, 1718-1758. ''Thomas Prince, A. M., ^uintus EcclesicB Australis Bos- 
tonii Nov-Anglorum, Pastor, e Collegii Harvardini Cantabrigice Curatoribus, 
Samuelis Armigeri Filius ct Thomce A. M., denati Pater." P. Pelham, fecit, 
after a painting by John Greenwood. Printed for and sold by J. Buck, at 
ye Spectacles in Q^ieen Street, Boston, 1750. 

A mezzotint portrait of '■'■The Reverend Timothy Cutler, D. D., of Christ 
Church, Boston, N. E. 1723-1765. P. Pelham, pinx. et fecit, 1750. 



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A mezzotint portrait of The Rev^. Mr. William Cooper, of Boston in 
New England, yEt. jo, 1743" pastor of Brattle Square Church, 1716-1743. 
P. Pclham,fecit, after the painting bj John Smibert. Printed for and sold bj 
Steph" Whiting, at je Rose and Crown in Union Street, Boston. 

A mezzotint portrait of ''The Rev. John Moorhcad, Minister of a Church 
of Presbyterian Strangers at Boston in New-England," lyjo-ijjj. P. Pclham, 
pinx. et fecit, 17JI. 

A mezzotint portrait of " The Reverend Benjamin Colman, D. Z>.," first 
pastor of Brattle-Square Cliurch, 1699-1747. P. Pelham, fecit, 1735, after a 
painting by John Smibert. 

A mezzotint portrait of "-The Revd Mr. William Welsteed, of Boston in 
New-England, yEt. jS, 17JJ." Pastor of the New Brick Church, 1728-1753. 
y. S. Copley, pinx. et fecit. Printed for and sold hy Step" Whiting, at je Rose 
and Crown, in Union-Street, Boston. 

A mezzotint portrait of ''The Rev. Jonathan Mayhew, D. D., pastor of the 
West Church in Boston," 1747-1766. Richd Jennys, junr , pinx. et fecit. Printed 
and sold bj Nath. Hurd, engravr. on je Exchange. 

A photographic portrait after the painting and mezzotint by Pelham, in 
1750, entitled: " The Reverend William Hooper, A. M., Minister of Trinity 
Church, Boston, N-E." 1747-1767. Sold by P. Pelham, in Boston. 

A photographic portrait from a mezzotint by Pelham, in 1750, after a paint- 
ing by John Smibert, entitled: " The Reverend Henry Caner, A. M., Minister 
of King's Chapel, Boston," 1747-1776. 

A mezzotint portrait entitled: " Thomas Ilollis, late of London, Mer- 
chant, a most generous Benefactor to Harvard College in N. E., having 
founded tivo Professorships and ten Scholarships in the said College, given a 
fine Apparatus for Experimental Philosophy, and increased the Library with a 
large number of valuable books, etc., Obiit i'jji,..Et. 7/." Jos. Highmore, pinx. 
1722. P. Pelham ab origin -.fecit et excud. 17 ji. 

A copper-plate portrait of "The Rev. Mr. Samuel Willard,'' pastor of the 
Old South Church, 1678-1707. G. V^r. Gncht, sc. 

A mezzotint portrait of the Rev. Samuel Cooper, pastor of Brattle Square 
Church, 1746-17S3. "Revdtis Samuel Cooper, S.T.D. Ecclcsice apud Bostonien- 
ses pastor amafitissimus. Natus vicesimo octavo Mart is A. D. 17^3. Ob: vices- 
imo nono Decenibris 17SJ. ^^t. jg. V. Green, mczzotinto engraver to His 
Majesty, and to the Elector Palatine, 2g Newman Street, London, 17S4. 

A copper-plate portrait of Rev. Daniel Sharp, D. D., pastor of the Charles 
Street Baptist Church, 1S12-1S53. Sartain, sc., after the painting in oil by C. 
Harding. 

A copper-plate print of the Tremont House, Isaiah Rogers, Architect, after a 
drawing by James Kidder, Annin d: Smith, sc. 

A portrait in oil of Peter Pelham, the early Boston engraver, died 1751. Johi. 
Singleton Copley, pinx. 

An oil painting, representing the Tremont House, as it appeared in 1S3:. 
Salmon, pinx. 

Heliotype reproductions as follows : 

View of Old State House, from the South-west, taken from Washington Street. 

Washington Street end of Old State House in 1791, from Massachusetts 
Magazine. 



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Six heliotjpe reproductions, struck upon one sheet, showing the Old State 
House at different periods between 1814 and iSSo. 

A colored print, after an oil painting, entitled : "View of the Citv of Boston 
from Dorchester Heights." Robert Havell, pinx. ei sc. 

An impression from the original copper-plate engraved by Paul Revere, 
entitled: " The Bloody Massacre, perpetrated in King-street, Boston, March 5, 
1770, by a party of the 29th Regt." 

Lithographic print, entitled: "View of Boston, July 4, 1870." F. Ftic/is, del. 
ei lith. Imp. Nezv Eng. Ltth. Co. Published by John Weik, 605 Sansom Street, 
Philadelphia. 

Lithographic print, entitled: "View of Boston, Massachusetts, 18S0," Beck dc 
Pauli, lith., Milwaukee, Wis., showing the proposed Charles River and Back 
Bay Park, an open area of over 700 acres, after a drawing by II. H. Rowley & Co., 
Hartford, Conn. 

Lithographic prijrit, entitled : "Bird's Eye View of Boston," published by B. B. 
Russell & Co., Boston, 1856. y. Mayer d- Co., lith., after a drawing by B. F. 
Nutting. 

Lithographic print, entitled: "The City of Boston," published by Currier & 
Ives, in New Yoi-k, 1S73. Parsons d: Attvater, del. 

Reproduction, made in 1849, fo'" Frothingham's " Siege of Boston," of a 
map entitled: "A Plan of the Town of Boston, with the Intrenchments, etc., 
of His Majesty's Forces in 1775, from the observations of Lieut. Page, of His 
Majesty's Corps of Engineers, and from the plans of other gentlemen. En- 
graved and printed for Wm Faden, Charing Cross, as the Act directs, ist 
October, 1777." 

Reproduction, made in 1S79, of a map entitled: "Map of Boston, in the 
State of Massachusetts, surveyed by J. G Hales, Geog''- and Surveyor, 1S14.' 



TOPOGRAPPilCAL COLLECTION. 



A reproduction, upon one sheet, issued in 1S46, of two old maps of New 
England, the first of which is entitled: ''The South Part of New England, 
as it is Planted this Yea re, f6j./." (The above very ancient map is an exact 
copy of the first that was made after Massachusetts was settled. It was taken 
from a book published in London by William Wood, entitled : " New England's 
Prospect.") 

The second is entitled: "A Map of N'etv England, being the first that ever 
was here cut, and done by the best Pattern that could be had, zvhich being in some 
places defective, it made the other less exact; yet doth it sufficiently she-v the 
scituation of the Count rcy, and conveniently well the distance of Places." (The 
above curious map is an exact copy of one published in 1677, to accompany a 
work entitled : "The present State of New-England, by William Hubbard." It 
was the first map engraved in this country, and was highly jjraised for its elegance 
and accurac}'.) 

A photographic reproduction, somewhat reduced, of an original map found 
among the manuscripts in the British Museum, supposed to have been executed 
by Gov. John Winthrop, about 1634, showing the Plantation of Boston and the 
surrounding country. 

A reproduction, made in 1S33, by Thomas Starling, Wilmington Square, Lon- 
don, of an original Dutch map, entitled : JVovi Belgii Novceque Anglia; ncc non 
partis Virginia; Tabula mult is in locis emendata a Nicolao Joannis Visschero. 
Atnsterdam : ib^g. 

A heliotype reproduction, entitled: ''Carte de la Ville, Baye et Environs de 
Baston. Par leati Baptistc Louis Franquelin , Hvdrog. duRoy, ibgj. Verijiee 
par le S^ de la Motte.'" 

A reproduction entitled : "Old Boston., compiled from the Book of Possessions, 
bv George Eamb. Published by the Trustees of the Boston Public Library. 
Heliotype Printing Co., Boston." 

A reproduction, entitled: "An Exact Praught of Boston Harbor, with a sur- 
vey of most of the Islands about it, ijii." Reproduced from the original in 
tiie British Museum, by the Photo-Electrotype Co., Boston. 

A reproduction, made in 1S35, of an early map, entitled: "The Tov^'n of Boston 
in Ncxv England, by Capt. John Boniier, ^^tatis suce 60. Engraven and Printed 
by Fra. Dewing, Boston, N. E., 1722. Sold by Capt- John Bonner, and Will'"- 
Price against ye Town-house, where may be had all sorts of Prints, Mapps, etc." 

A map partially modelled upon Capt. John Bonner's "Map of "The Town of 
Boston in New England," 1722, entitled : "Plan of Boston in ij22." A. Bozven, sc. 



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A map entitled: '■'The Toxvn of Boston in Neiv- England." No date given, 
but supposed to be about 1734. 

A reproduction, made in 1870, of an early map showing the topography of 
Boston Harbor, originally published according to Act of Parliament by J. F. W. 
DesBarres, Esqr-i August 5, 1775. A. Mcisel, lith. 

A lithograph, after an old cut in the Pennsylvania Magazine, dated July 31, 
1775) entitled; '■'■Exact Plan of General Gage s Lines on Boston Neck,in America." 
Note upon margin : "As the Transactions at Boston are at present the principal 
object of the attention of the whole Continent, the editor thought he could not 
oblige his readers more than by giving them an exact plan of General Gage's 
fortifications and intrenchments there. This he hath done in the annexed plate, 
upon so large a scale, that it will be easy to form a perfect idea of the manner 
in which the General hath blockaded the entrance of that city. R. Aitken." 
M. M. Tidd, lith., Boston. 

A heliotype reproduction, made for Frothingham's "Siege of Boston," in 1879, 
entitled: ''■Plan of the Tovj7i of Boston, %vith the Intrenchments, etc. of His 
Majesty's Forces in ij^/j, from the Observations oj Lieut. Page, of His Majesty's 
Corf s of Engineers ; and from the Plans of other gentlemen.'' Engraved and 
printed for William Fadden, Charing Cross, Oct. i, 1777. 

A heliotype reproduction, made in 1S75, of two maps upon one sheet, entitled: 
respectively; "yl ISferu and Accurate Plan of the Toivn of Boston in Ncxv-Eng- 
land, 777^;" and '■'A Nevj Plan 0/ Boston Harbor from an Actual Survey, 1774." 
The original plate was engraved in England, from an accurate Survey by British 
Engineers, just previous to the Revolutionary War. 

A heliotype reproduction, made in 1S75, entitled: '■'General Washington s 
Revolutionary Campaign War Map. after a Survey ordered by him, shoxving the 
posit iofi of his Army in defence of Boston, 1776, also the Fortifications and Guti 
Batteries, extending from Charlestoivn around to Dorchester Heigh ts.'^ 

A reproduction, made in 1S76, by George Lamb, of a map, entitled : "A Plan 
of Boston in IVezv England, -with its Environs, including Milton, Dorchester, 
Roxbury, Brooklin, Cambridge, Medford, Charlestotvn, Parts of Maiden a tid 
Chelsea, ivith the Military Works constructed in those Places in the years 177J 
and 177b. Dedicated to the Right Honorable Lord George Germain. ;London : 
Published according to Act of Parliament, June 2, 1777, by Henry Pelham. 

An india ink draught, inscribed as follows : "To the Selectmen of the Town of 
Boston, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, ever distinguished for their 
Zeal for the Good of their Constituents, this Plan of said Town is with due def- 
ference most humbly dedicated, being drawn from an Actual Survey, carefully 
taken by Their Most Obedient, Humble Servant, Osgood Carleton, Anooue Dom- 
ini MDCCXCV." 

Two original maps of Boston for the years 1796 and 1803, enclosed within 
one frame, each entitled: "-A Plan of Boston, from Actual Survey, by Osgood 
Carleton." 

Three maps of the Boston Directory for difterent years, between 1800 and 
iSio, each entitled : "Plan of Boston.'''' No date given. 

A reproduction, made in 1878, published by George B. Foster, Boston, entitled : 
"■'A Ne-w Piatt of Boston, from Actual Surveys by Osgood Carleton, "Mith Addi- 
tions, Corrections and Improvements, 1800." 

A reproduction, made in 1S79, ^J ^- Williams & Co., Boston, of a map, en- 
titled : "Map of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, Surveyed by f. G. Hales, 
Geogr. and Surveyor, 1S14." 



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^^Plan of Boston, covif rising a fart of Chariest oxvji aiid Cambridgcport" 1826. 
Engraved and published bj Annin & Smith and J. V. N. Throop, from Actual 
Survey, with corrections bj S. P. Fuller, Surveyor. 

Unfinished plan of Boston, from among the papers of Abel Bowen, collected 
in 1S27-2S. 

A map entitled: ''City of Boston. '' Published by the United States Hotel Com- 
pany, Boston. No date given. 

"yl Map of the Towns of Dorchester and Milton., ^Sji." Made under the 
direction of the Town's Committees for the use of the C'ommonwealth. From 
Actual Surveys made by Edmund J. Barker, Survey'- Pendleton's Lithography, 
Boston. 

''Map of the Town of Roxhury. Surveyed by John G. Hales." Published 
under the Superintendence of the Selectmen, April, 1S32. 
"Plan of the City of Boston, iSj2." G. W. Boynton, sc. 
"Plan of the City of Boston, fSj./.'^ G. W. Boynton, sc. 
"Plan of the City oj Boston, iSjj." G. IV. Boynton, sc. 
"Plan of the City of Boston, iSjy." G. IF. Boynton, sc. 

"Plan of Boston, with parts of the Adjacent Towns." Published by the Bos- 
ton Bewick Company, 1S35, and dedicated to the Mayor and Aldermen of Boston. 
"Map of the South Cove Territory, iSjj." Pendleton" s Lithography. 
A lithograph, entitled: "Map of Boston and its Vicinity." No date 
given. ' Reduced, by permission, from the large map of Boston and its Vicinity." 
Eddy, del. on stone. Pendlcto>i's Lithography. 

A map, entitled : "Boston, iSjS." Morse d- Tuttle, sc. Published by Charles 
Stimpson, junior. 

A map, entitled : "Plan of the City of Boston, Lat. N. 42° ,21' ; Lon. E. from 
Washington ^^ , 5-/ ' • Population 120,000." G. W. Boynton, sc. Published by 
S. N. Dickinson, 1S44. 

A map, entitled: "Plan of Boston, comprising a part of Charlestown and 
Cambridge.'" Published by George G. Smith, Engraver. Boston : 1851. 

"A New and Complete Map of the City of Boston, and precincts, including 
part op Charlcstoxvn, Cambridge and Roxbtiry, from the Best Authorities." Pub- 
lished by Nathaniel Dearborn, Boston, 184S. Note on margin: "All the Islands 
in the Harbor as far as Boston Light-House belong to Ward Four." 

A map, entitled : "Plan of Boston, C07nprising a part of Charlestotvn and 
Cambridge." Published by George G. Smith, Engraver. Boston: 1846. 
"Map of the Environs of Boston, 1848." 

"Map of the Vicinity of Boston." 184^. G. W. Boynton, sc Engraved for 
the Boston Almanac. 

"Map of New England, exhibiting the Railroad and Telegraphic lines now 
in Operation.'" i8jo. Compiled and Engraved expressly for the Boston Al- 
manac. G. W. Boynton, sc. 

A plan entitled: "City of Boston, with part of East Boston, i8jo." Illus- 
trated with wood cut frontispiece showing Faneuil Hall and Qjjincy Market. 
"Printed by Snow & Wilder on the Adams Fast Job Press, at the Mechanics' 
Fair, 1850, expressly for the New England Tea Co." 

An original india-ink drawing, entitled : "Plan of Boston Common, showing 
the kind and posit iofi oJ each tree, and every other object of importance, from 
Actual Survey, made under the direction oJ the City Engineer, December, jSji. 
M. W. Nicoll, del. 



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A map, entitled: ^'Nctv Map of Boston, comprising the ivholc City., -with the 
New Boundaries of the Wards." Engraved expressly for the Boston Almanac^ 

1S52. 

A map, entitled : " Nexv Map of Boston, comprising the ivhole City, with the 
New Boundaries of the Wards.''' Engraved expressly for the Boston Almanac, 

A map, entitled : "iVt'TV Map of Boston, comprising the whole City, with the 
New Boundaries of the Wards." Engraved expressly for the Boston Almanac, 
i8js. 

A map, entitled: "jVezt/ Map of Boston, comprising the zuhole City, with the 
New Boundaries of the Wards." Engraved expressly for the Boston Almanac, 
iSjS. 

A map, entitled: "TVcxi' Map of Boston, comprising the -vhole City, with the 
Nctv Boundaries of the Wards." Engraved expressly for the Boston Almanac, 

iSsg. 

'■Map of the City of Boston, and Immediate Neighborhood, from Original 
Surveys by H. Mclntyre, C. E."' Published by H. Mclntjre, 17 Doane Street, 
Boston, 1852. Friend d- Aiib, lith., Philadelphia. 

''Map of the City of Boston, Mass., 18^2.'" Surveyed and drawn by I. Shatter 
and B. Callan, Civil Engineers. Engraved and printed at Ferd. Mayer's Lithog- 
raphy, New York. Published by L. N. Ide, Boston. 

"New Map of Boston, comprising the whole City, with the New Boundaries 
of the Wards, 1853," with a reduction of Capt- John Bonner's map, (,1722) 
annexed. 

"Plan of Boston, comprising a part of Charlestorvn and Cambridge.'''' Pub- 
lished by George G. Smith, Engraver, and by Ide & Dutton. Boston: 1856, 
with small plans of South and East Boston annexed. 

A colored lithograph, entitled: ''Bird's Eye View of Boston." Drawn by 
B. F. Nutting. 7. Mayer tf- Co., lith., Boston. Published in 1S56, by B. B. 
Russell & Co. 

"Plan of Boston, comprising a part of Charlestoxvn and Cambridge." Pub- 
lished by George G. Smith, Engraver, Boston: 1859. 

A lithograph, entitled: "Map of Boston, 1862, photographically reduced from 
the City Engineer's plans, with all the latest improvements : a complete Guide 
to Strangers.' Printed in oil colors. /,. Prang & Co., lith. 

"Map of the Vicinity of Boston." Engraved for the Boston Guide Book, 1S64. 
G. W. Boynton, sc. 

"Plan of Fort Hill, shotving Street Improvements as adopted by the City 
Council, iSbg. Thomas W. Davis, City Surveyor." 

A plan, entitled : "Health Districts of the City of Boston, arranged by the 
State Board of Health, to show the mortality in 1870." 

Map, entitled: "Plan of Boston and its Vicinity, prepared fro fu the Best 
Authorities, for the Boston Almanac, iSjo." A. Meisel, lith. 

A colored lithograph, entitled: '" Viezv of Boston, July 4, iSjo. F. Fuchs, 
del. et lith. imp. Nexv Eng. Lith. Co., Boston. Published by John Weik, 605 
Sansom Street, Philadelphia. 

" Bartletfs Illustrated Map of Boston, or Strangers' Guide, showing the Pub- 
lic Buildings, etc." G. H. Bartlett, lith., New York, iSyi. 

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'■'■Map of Boston, from the latest Siiri^eys. Published by Sampson, Davenport 
& Co., Boston, Mass., /8y/." 

'■'Map of the Burnt District, showing' the area covered by the great Boston 
fire of Nov. g-io, iSj2.^' Published by Haskell and Allen, 6i Hanover Street, 
Boston. 

'■'Plan of the Burnt District, (by fire of Nov g-io, jSja,) shoiving Street 
Improvements as adopted by Board of Street Co}nmissioners and City Council. 
Thomas W. Davis, City Surveyor, /Sjj." 

A colored lithograph, entitled : "The City of Boston." Parsons and Attvatcr, 
del. New York: 1S73. Published by Currier <& Ives, 125 Nassau Street. 

"Map of Boston, iS-j4.'" Published expressly for the Boston Almanac and 
Boston Directory, by Sampson, Davenport t£- Co., Boston. 

"Plan of Charlcstoivn, from Fclton d- Parker s, with Additions and Correc- 
tions." Thomas IV. Davis, City Surz'eyor, iSj^. C. D. Barstow, del. 

Map of Boston, iSjj." Published expressly for the Boston Almanac and Bos- 
ton Directory, by Sampson, Davenport dr Co., Boston. 

"Map of Boston, shoxving proposed new Divisions of Wards, October, iSy^." 

"Map op' Boston, iSjd." Published expressly for the Boston Almanac and 
Boston Directory by Sampson, Davenport & Co., Boston. 

"Plan of Back Bay, showing Public Parks, with the System of Streets and 
Sewers proposed for its Improz'ement, Feb. S, iSjy." Fuller and Whatcly, 
Engineers. 

A colored lithograph, entitled : "Boston : Bird's Eye IVcTf from the North." 
y. Bachmann del. et lith. Copyright 1S77, by L. Prang & Co. 

A lithograph, entitled: "The City of Boston, iSjg." Armstrong <£■ Co., lith., 
Riverside Press, Cambridge, A/ass. O. H, Bailey and J. C. Hazen, publishers. 

Plan, entitled: "Proposed Improvement of Back Bay." Park Department, 
City of Boston, 1S79. Charles H. Dalton, William Gray, jun., Henry Lee, Com- 
missioners. 

A lithograph, entitled : " ]7ezu of Boston, Massachusetts, 18S0." Drawn and 
published by H. H. Rowley & Co., Hartford, Conn. Beck d- Pauli, lith., Mil- 
waukee, Wis. 

A heliotype reproduction, entitled : "Park Department, City of Boston. 
Plan op Proposed Aluddy River Improvement, showing contours, July jj, iSSi. 
Henry M. VVightman, City Engineer. 

"Map of the Business Portion of Boston, /SSj." The reverse side exhibits an 
impression, entitled: "Map of Boston, 1S83." Published by B. B. Russell, 57 
Cornhill. 

"Map of Boston, /SSj. Published expressly for the Boston Directory. Samp- 
son, Davenport d Co., ijj; Franklin Street, Boston. 

"Map oj Boston, jSS.^. Published expressly for the Boston Directory. Samp- 
son, Davenport d Co., fjj Franklin Street, Boston. 



After this report had gone to press, the Society received an exact reproduction 
in fac-simile of an original plan, found by H. F. Waters, among the manuscripts 
in the British Museum, in 1SS4, entitled: "^1 Dravght of Boston-Harbor : By 
Capt -.Cyprian : Southake : Made by Avgvstinc Fitzhvgh, Anno ibg^," "Copied 
for H. F. Waters, Escf- from the original in the British Museum, 12th August, 
1SS4. J. A. Burt." (This is the earliest map of Boston Harbor which has yet 
been found, and is executed in colors.) 



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newspaper,) from the beginning of its issue 
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Boston Public Library ...... 

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Hon. William A. Courtenay, Mayor of Charleston, S.C 

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Dana Estes ....... 

Albert A. Folsom 

Gloucester Free Library ..... 
Hon. Samuel A. Green, M. D. 

Hamilton A. Hill 

Col. A. S. Hubbard, San Francisco 

William C. Lawrence ..... 

Col. John S. Lockwood .... 

George H. Moore, LL.D., New York City 

Grenville H. Norcross ..... 

Old Boston School Boys' Association 

Henry J. Parker ...... 

John P. Reed 

Mrs. A. C. Richmond ..... 

Edward H. Savage ...... 

Samuel E. Sawyer ..... 

John L. Stevenson ...... 

University of California .... 

Henshaw B. VValley ....•• 

William H. Whitmore 

James L. Whitney ...... 



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OFFICERS FOR 1SS5 



President. 

CURTIS GU I LD. 



Directors. 



Thomas C. Amory, 
William S. ArrLExoN, 
William H. Baldwin, 

JosaUA P. BODFISH, 



Ci'RTis Guild, 
John T. Hassam, 
Hamilton A. Hill, 
Samuel H. Russell, 



William H. Whitmore. 



Clerk and Treasurer. 
William H. Whitmore. 



Committee on the Rooms. 

William H. Whitmore, I Samuel H. Russell, 

William S. Appleton, | James Rindge Stanwood, 

Samuel M. Qitixcy. 



Committee on Papers. 

Hamilton A. Hill, | John Ward Dean, 

James F. Hunnewell. 



Committee on i\Iembership 

J. C. J. Brown, 
William H. Baldwin, 
Jacob A. Dresser, 



Samuel M. Qijincy, 
William W. Warren, 

ERVINCi WlNSLOW. 



Committee on the Library. 



Martin Brimmer, 
Henry P. Curtis, 



Dana Estes, 
James L. Whitney, 



William C. Winslow. 



LIFE MEMBERS. 



Appleton, Nathan 
Bodfish, Joshua P. 
Bradford, Martin L. 
Bradford, William B. 
Bradlee, J. Putnam 
Brooks, Peter Chardon 
Brown, John Coffin Jones 
Carpenter, George O. 
Chase, George B. 
Chase, Stephen 
Chase, Theodore 
Clay, Thomas II. 
Crowninshield, Benjamin W. 
Curtis, Henry Pelham 
Deblois, Stephen Grant 
Dupee, James A. 
Emery, Francis F. 
Estes, Dana 
Ferris, Mortimer C. 
Foster, John 
Green, Samuel Abbott 
Guild, Curtis 
Hall, Thomas B. 
Hassam, John T. 
Head, Charles 



Henshaw, Samuel 
Ilomans, Charles D. 
Ladd, Nathaniel W. 
Minns, Thomas 
Norcross, Grenville II. 
O'Brien, Hugh (Hon. Mem.) 
Parker, Charles W. 
Perry, Charles F. 
Richardson. B. Ileber 
Russell, Samuel II. 
Sears, J Montgomery 
Shaw, Henry Southworth 
Shaw, Henry Southworth Jr. 
Slafler, Edmund F. 
Slater, Andrew C. 
Ward, Francis Jackson 
Weld, Otis Everett 
Wheelwright, Andrew C. 
Whitmore, Charles O. 
Whitmore, Charles J. 
Winslow, William C. 
Winthrop, Robert C. Jr. 
Winthrop, Robert Mason 
Woodman, Cvrus 



M EMBERS. 



Abbot, Edward A. 
Adams, Waldo 
Allen, Samuel P. 
Allen, Stillman B. 
Allen, Thomas J. 
Ames, Oakes Angier 
Ames, Oliver 
Ames, Samuel T. 
Amory, Frederic 
Amory, Thomas C. 
Andrew, John F. 
Angell, Henry C. 



*Appleton, Thomas Gold 

Appleton, William 

Appleton, William Sumner 
*Apthorp, Robert East 

Apthorp, John V. 

Austin, James W. 

Avery, Abraham 

Ayer, James B. 

Bailey, Joseph T. 

Baldwin, William II. 

Barbour, John N. 

Beal, James H. 



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Beal, Leandcr 
Bell, A. D. S. 
Bent, S. Arthur 
Bigelow, Abraham O. 
*Bigelo\v, Alanson 
Bigelow, George B. 
Billings, Robert C. 
Bishop, Robert R. 
Blakemore, John E. 
Bolles, Matthew 
Bouve, Thomas T. 
Bowditch, Charles P. 
Bradlee, Caleb D. 
Bradlee, John T. 
Brainard, Charles Rollin 
Braman. G. T. W. 
Bremer, John L. 
Briggs, Richard 
Brimmer, Martin 
Brooks, p'rancis 
Brooks, Ilenrj C. 
Brooks, Philli|)s 
Brooks, Shepherd 
Brown, Alfred S. 
Brown, Buckminster 
Brown, James Wentworth 
Brown, Samuel N. 
Browne, C. Allen 
Browne, T. Qj.n'ncy 
Bufi'um, Charles 
Bugbec, James M. 
Bullens, George S. 
Burdett, Horatio S. 
Burgess, James M. 
Burnham, T. O. H. P. 
Burrage, Alvah A. 
Bush, J. Foster 
Butler, Sigournej 
Calef, Benjamin S. 
Candler, John W. 
Carpenter, Prank O. 
Carruth, Charles 
Carter, Charles M. 
Case, James B. 
Chamberlain, Mellen 
Chandler, Francis W. 
Chandler, Horace P. 
Chandler, Thomas H. 
*Child, Dudley Richards 
Clapp, Channing 



Clapp, Otis 

Clark, Cyrus T. 
*Clark, D. Oakes 

Clark, Joseph W. 

Clarke, Botsford R. 
*Clarke. Dorus 

Clarke, James Freeman 

Clarke, Thomas W. 

ClilTord, Samuel W. 

Clifford, Samuel W. Jr. 

Clough, George A. 

Cochrane, Alexander 

Codman, William C. 

Codman, Odgen Jr. 

Colburn, Jeremiah 
*ColIamore, Ebenezer 

Con\-erse, Elisha S. 

Coolidge, Albert L. 

Coolidge, John T. Jr. 

Cordner, John 

Creech, Samuel ^\^. Jr. 

Crocker, George G. 

Crocker, Uriel 
Crosby, C. A. W. 

Cruft, Samuel B. 

Cunningham, Edward 
*Cushing, Samuel Thaxter, 

Dalton, Charles H. 
Damrell, John S. 
Dana, Francis 
Dana, George N. 
Danforth, Isaac W. 
Daniell, Moses Grant 
Davis, James C. 
Dean, John Ward 
Deblois, George L. 
Dexter, Morton 
Dexter, S. Parkman 
Dexter, William S. 
Dickinson, M. F. Jr. 
Ditson, Oliver 
*Dix, Juhn H. 
Dodge, Theodore A. 
Dresser, Jacob A. 
Dvvight, Edmund 
Dyer, Benjamin F. 
Eaton, Walter D. 
Eddy, Otis 
Edes, Henry H. 
Edes, Robert T. 



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Endicott, Willium Jr. 
Euitis, W. Tracy 
Everett, Percival L. 
Fabyan, George F. 
Fearing, Andrew C. Jr. 
Fitz, Eustace C 
Folsom, Albert A. 
Foote, Henry Wilder 
Forbes, J. Murray 
Forbes, Robert B. 
French, Benjamin 
French, Charles E. 
French, Frederick W. 
French, J. D. Williams 
Frost, Rufus S. 
Fuller, B. A. G. 
Fuller, Charles E. 
Galloupe, Charles W. 
Gardner, George A. 
Gardner, John 
*Gardner, John L. 
Gardner, John L,. Jr. 
Gibbens, Joseph M. 
Gleason, Daniel A. 
Glidden, John M. 
Goddard, William 
Gookin, Charles B. 
Gorham, James Lane 
Gould, Benjamin Apthorp 
Gra}', Joseph H. 
Green, George H. 
Greenough, Francis B. 
Greenough, William W. 
Grover, \Villiam O. 

Guild, George K. 

Hale, Edward Everett 

Hall, Edward R. 

Hall, John R. 

Hallowell, Richard P. 

Hamlen, Nathaniel P. 

Hammond, George W. 

Harding, Charles L. 

Harris, Charles 

Halt, William T. 
*Hayes, Francis B. 

Haynes, Henry W. 

Hayward, George 

Heard, J. Theodore 

Hecht, Jacob H. 



Hemenway, Alfred 

Henchman, Nathaniel H. 

Herford, Brooke 

Hersey, Alfred H. 

Hervey, Abraham F. 

Higginson, Waldo 

Hill, Clement Hugh 

Hill, Hamilton Andrews 

Hilton, William 

Hodgkins, William E. 

Hogg, John 

Hoitt, Alfred D. 

Holman, Charles H. 

Homans, George H. 
* Hooper, Robert W. 

Horton, William H. 

Houghton, Henry O. 

Howe, George D. 

Howes, Osborne Jr. 
*Hubbard, Aaron Dean 

Humphreys, Richard C. 

Hunnewell, H. H. 

Hunnewell, James F. 

Huntoon, Daniel T. V. 

Hurd, Charles E. 

Hutchings, William Vincent 

lasigi, Joseph A. 

Inches, Charles 

Inches, Charles E. 
*Jaques, Francis 

James, George Abbot 

Jelly, George F. 

Jenks, Henry F. 

Jenks, Thomas L. 

Jenney, Bernard 

Johnson, Charles E. 

Johnson, Edward C. 

Johnson, Samuel 

Jones, D. Wayland 

Jones, Leonard A. 

Kendall, Charles S. 
Kennard, Martin Parry 

Kennedy, George G. 
Kidder, Henry P. 
Kurtz, Charles Carroll 
Ladd, Babson S. 
Lamb, George 
Lamb, Thomas 
Lambert, Thomas R. 



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Lathrop, John 
Lawrence, Abbott 
Lee, William H. 
Lewis, John A. 
Lewis, Weston 
Lincoln, Arthur 
Lincoln, Frederic W. 
Lincoln, Solomon 
Little, Samuel 
Lockwood, Rhodes 
Lord, Hartley 
Loring, John A. 
Lothroj-), Siunuel K. 
Lothrop, Thornton K. 
Lovering Josepii S. 
Lowell George G. 
Luce, Matthew 
Lyon, Henry 
Macdonald, Edward 
Mackay, Robert C. 
Mair, Thomas 
Manning, Francis II. 
May, Frederic Goddard 
May, Frederic W. G. 
May, John Joseph 
May, Samuel 
Ma^o, Edward R. 
Means, William G. 
Milliken, Ebenezer C. 
Mills, Henry F. 
Mills, William N. 
Minot, Francis 
Moore, P'rederic II. 
Morse, Henry A. 
Morse, L. Foster 
Moseley, Alexander 
Nickerson, Andrew 
Niles, Thomas 
Noble, John 
*Norcross, Otis 
Norton, C. B. 
Nourse, nenjamin F. 
Nourse, Frederic R. 
Nowell, Thomas S. 
Osgood, Edward L. 
Osgood, James R. 
Page, Edward 
Paige, John C. 
Paine, Robert Treat Jr. 



Palfrey, Francis W. 

Palfrey, John C. 

Parker, Edgar 
*Parker, Harvey D. 

Parkman, Francis 

Parsons, Albert S. 

Patridge, Eugene E. 

Peabody, Charles B. 

Peabody, Henry VV. 

Penhallow, Pearce W. 

Perkins, Augustus T. 

Perkins, Charles C. 

Perkins, Thomas H. 

Perkins, Wilham 

Pfaft; Jacob 
•■"Phillips, John C. 

Phipps, Benjamin 

Pierce, George F. 

Pierce, Nathaniel W. 

Piper, William T. 

Pond, Albert C. 

Porter, Alexander S. 

P(M-ter, Edward G. 

Porter, John W. 

Prang, Louis 

Pratt, Edward Ellerton 

Pratt, John C. 

Pratt, Laban 
*Preble, George Henry 

Preston, Jonathan 

Preston, William G. 

Putnam, George F. 

Cjj-iincy, George Henry 

C^iincy, Josiah 

Qj,iincy, Samuel M. 

Reed, Henry R. 

Reed, James 

Richards, Henry C. 

Richardson, Augustus 

Richardson, Frederic L, 

Richardson, George C. 

Richardson, Thomas O. 

Richardson, Spencer W. 

Rice, Henry A. 

Rip- ley, George 

Robbins, George W. 

Robinson, Nathan D. 

Rogers, Henry B. 

Ropes, John C. 



Rotch, William 

Russ, Augustus 

Rust, Nathaniel J. 

Rust, William A. 

Salisbury, D. \V^aldo 

Sampson, Edwin H. 

Sargent, George D. 

Sargent, Lucius M. 

Sawyer, Joseph 

Sawyer, Samuel E. 

Searle, George W. 

Sears, J. Henry 

Sears, Kn wet W. 

Sears, Phillip II. 

Sewall, Samuel E. 

Shattuck, George O. 

Shaw, Henry L. 
*Shaw, Lemuel 

ShiUaber, William G. 

Slade, Lucius 

Sleeper, Jacob 

Slocum, William H. 

Smith, Charles C. 

Smith, Elbridge 

Snelling, George H. 

Snelling, Samuel G. 

Snow, S. T. 

Souther, Henry 

Sowdon, A. J. C. 

Spaulding, Mahlon D. 

Spencer, Aaron W. 

Sprague, Henry IL 

Standish, L. Miles 

Stanwood, James Rindge 

Stearns, Edward 

Stedman, George 

Stetson, A. W. 

Stevens, Benjamin F. 

Stevens, Oliver Crocker 

Stickney, J. Henry 

Stone, Charles W. 
*Storer, W. Brandt 

Strong, Edward A. 

Sullivan, Richard 

Swan, William W. 

Taggard, B. W. 

Talbot, L Tisdale 

Talbot, William H. 

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Temple, Thomas F. 
*Temple F. W^ 11 Ham 

Thacher, Henry C. 

Thayer, Edward F. 

Thorndike, George Quincy 

Thorndike, S. Lothrop 

Thwing, Weaker E. 

Torrey, Benjamin B. 

Train, Charles R. 

Trask, William B. 

Tucker, George F. 

Tufts, Arthur W. 

Turner, Job A. Jr. 

Upton, George B. 
*VanBenthuysen, George Christie 

Viaux, Fred H. 

Vose, J. Thomas 
*Vose, Thomas Baker 

Wadsworth, vVlexander F. 

Wales, George W. 

Walker, Nathaniel 

Walley, Ilenshaw B. 
*Warren, G. Washington 

Warren, John Collins 

Warren, Joseph W. 

Warren S. D. 

Warren, William Wilkins 

Weeks, Andrew G. 
*Weeks, James H. 

Welch, Charles A. 

VV^eld, Aaron Davis Jr. 

Weld, Moses W. 

Wells, Samuel 

Wendell, Mark Rogers 

Wentworth, Arioch 

Wheelwright, Edward 

Wheildon, William Wilder 

White, Charles T. 

White, J. Gardner 

Whitman, Henry 

Whitmore, William H. 

Whitney, D. R. 

Whitney, Edward 

Whitney, James L. 

Whittemore, Henry 

Willard, Arthur W. 

Willard, Robert 

WUcutt, Levi L. 



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Willcut, S. D. G. 
Williams, Alexander 
Williams, Henry W. 
Williams, Jacob L. 
Winchester, Thomas B. 
Winslovv, Erving 



Wolcott, J. Huntington 
*Wolcott, J. W. 
Wood, William B. 
Woodward, Arthur Stanley 
Wooley, William 
Worster, John 



* Deceased. 



BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 



ORGANIZED TO PROMOTE THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF BOSTON, 
AND THE PRESERVATION OF ITS ANTIQUITIES. 



BY-LAWS 



OBJECTS. 

It shall be the duty of members, so far as it may be in their power, to carry 
out the objects of the Society, by collecting, by gift, loan, or purchase, books, 
manuscripts, and pictures, and by such other suitable means as may, from time 
to time, seem expedient. 

II. 

MEMBERS. 

The members of the Bostonian Society shall be such persons, either resident 
or non-resident in Boston, as shall, after having been proposed and accepted as 
candidates at any regular monthly meeting by the Directors, be elected by the 
votes of a majority of the members present and voting. 

III. 

HONOR.\RY AND CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. 

Honorary and Corresponding members shall be nominated by the Directors, 
and shall be elected by ballot by two-thirds of the members present and voting. 
They may take part in the meetings of the Society, but shall not be entitled to 
vote. 

IV. 

ADMISSION FEE AND ASSESSMENTS. 

Each member shall pay five dollars at the time of his admission, and five dol- 
lars each first of January afterwards, into the treasury of the Society for its 
general purposes; but if any member shall neglect to pay his admission fee, or 
annual assessment, for three months after the same is due, he shall be liable to 
forfeit his membership at any time when the Directors shall so order. 

The payment of the sum of twenty-five dollars in any one year by any mem- 
ber of the Society shall constitute him a life member of the Society; life 
members shall be free from assessments, and entitled to all the rights and 
privileges of annual members. The money received for such life memberships 
shall constitute a fund, of which not more than twenty per cent, together with 
the]annual income, shall be spent in any one year. 



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V. 

CERTIFICATES. 

Certificates signed by tlie President, and countersigned bj the Treasurer, shall 
be issued to all persons who have become life members of the Society. 

VI. 

MEETINGS. 

The annual meeting of the Society shall be held on the second Tuesday in 
January, and regular meetings shall be held on the second Tuesday of every 
month, excepting July, August, and September, at such time and place as the 
Directors shall appoint. Special meetings shall be called by the Clerk, under 
the instruction of the Directors. 

At all meetings ten members shall be a quorum for business. All Committees 
shall be nominated by the Chair unless otherwise ordered. 

VII. 

OFFICERS. 

The officers of the Society shall be nine Directors, a President, a Clerk, and 
a Treasurer. The Directors, Clerk and Treasurer, shall be chosen by ballot at 
the annual meeting in January, and shall hold office for one year, and until 
others are duly chosen and qualified in their stead. 

The President shall be chosen by the Board of Directors, from their number 
at their first meeting after election, or at any adjournment thereof. 

The offices of Clerk and Treasurer may be held by the same person. 

VIII. 

VACANCIES. 

Any vacancy in the Board of Directors, or the office of Clerk or Treasurer, 
may be filled for the remainder of the term at any regular meeting of the Society, 
by the votes of two-thirds of the members present and voting. 

In the absence of the Cleik at any meeting of the Society, a Clerk fro 
tempore shall be chosen. 

IX. 

NOMINATING COMMITTEE. 

At the monthly meeting in December, a Nominating Committee of three 
persons shall be appointed, who shall report at the annual meeting a list of 
candidates for the places to be filled. 

X. 

PRESIDING OFFICER. 

The President, or in his absence, one of the Directors, shall preside at all 
meetings of the Society. In the absence of all these officers, a President pro 
tempore shall be chosen. 

XI. 

DUTIES OF THE CLERK. 

The Clerk shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of his duties. 
He shall notify all meetings of the Society. He shall keep an exact record 
of all the proceedings of the Society at its meetings. 



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He shall conduct the general correspondence of the Society, and place on file 
all letters received. 

He shall enter the names of members systematically in books kept for the pur- 
pose, and issue certificates of life membership. 

The Clerk shall have such charge of all property in the possession of the 
Society as may from time to time be delegated to him by the Board of Directors. 

He shall acknowledge each loan or gift that may be made to and accepted in 
behalf of the Society. 

xn. 

DUTIES OF TREASURER. 

The Treasurer shall collect all monies due to the Society, and pay all bills 
against the Society, when a])proved by the Board of Directors. 

He shall keep a full account of receipts and expenditures in a book belonging 
to the Society, which shall always be open to the inspection of the Directors ; 
and at the annual meeting in January, he shall make a written report of all his 
doings for the year preceding. 

The Treasurer shall give bond in the sum of one hundred dollars, with one 
surety, for the faithful discharge of his duties. 

xni. 

DUTIES AND POWERS OF DIRECTORS. 

The Directors shall superintend and conduct the prudential and executive 
business of the Society ; shall authorize all expenditures of money ; fix all salaries ; 
provide a common seal; receive and act upon all resignations and forfeitures of 
membership, and see that the By-Laws are duly complied with. 

The Directors shall have full power to comply with the terms of the lease of 
the rooms in the Old State House, made with the City of Boston, and to make 
all necessary rules and regulations required in the premises. 

They shall annually, in the month of April, make a careful comparison of the 
articles in the possession of the Society %vith the list to be returned to the City of 
Boston under the terms of the lease, and certify to its correctness. 

They shall make a report of their doings at the annual meeting of the Society. 

The Directors may, from time to time, appoint such sub-committees as they. 
deem expedient. 

In case of a vacancy in the office of Clerk or Treasurer, they shall have power 
to choose a clerk or Treasurer j25ro tempore till the next meeting of the Society. 

XIV. 

MEETINGS OF DIRECTORS. 

Regular meetings of the Directors shall be held on the day previous to the 
regular meetings of the Society, at an hour to be fixed by the President; 
special meetings of the Directors shall be held in such manner as they may 
appoint; and a majority shall constitute a quorum for business. 

XV. 

FINANCE COMMITTEE. 

The President shall annually, in the month of January, appoint two Directors, 
who, with the President, shall constitute the Committee on Finance, to examine 



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from time to time, the books and accounts of the Treasurer; to audit his 
accounts at the close of the j'car, and to report upon the expediency of proposed 
expenditures of money. 

XVI. 

STANDING COMMITTEES. 

The President shall annually, in the month of January, appoint four standing 
committees, as follows : — 

Com?niifee on the Rooms. 
A committee of five members, to be styled the Committee on the Rooms, 
who shall have charge of all the arrangements of the Rooms, including 
the acceptance or rejection of all articles, (except books, manuscripts, and other 
objects appi-opriatc to the Lil^rary), offered as gifts or loans, the hanging of 
pictures, and the general arrangement of the Society's collections in their depart- 
ment; also, the employment and compensation of custodians. 

Committee o/i Papers. 
A committee of three members, to be styled the Committee on Papers, who 
shall have charge of the subject of papers to be read, or other exercises of a like 
nature, at the monthly- meetings of the Society. 

Committee on ISIcmbersJiip. 

A committee of five or more members, to be styled the Committee on 
Membership, whose duty it shall be to give information in relation to the 
purposes of the Society, and increase its membership. 

Committee on tJie I^ilwary. 

A committee of five members, to be styled the Committee on the Library, 
who shall have charge of all the arrangements of the Library, including the 
acceptance or rejection of all books, manuscripts, and other objects appropriate 
to the I.,ibrary, ofiered as gifts or loans, and the general arrangement of the 
Society's collections in their department. 

These four committees shall perform the duties above set forth, under the 
general supervision of the Directors. 

Vacancies, which may occur in any of these Committees during their term 
of service shall be filled by the President. 

XVIL 

AMENDMENTS TO BY-LAWS. 

Amendments to the By-Laws may be made, at any annual meeting, by the vote 
of two-thirds of the members present and voting. They may also be made liy 
the like vote at any regular meeting, provided notice of the same be contained 
in a call for such meeting issued by the Clerk, and sent to every member. 



PROCEEDINGS 

OF THE 

BOSTONIAN SOCIETY 

AT THE 

ANNUAL MEETING, JANUARY V2, 1886. 




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BOSTONIAN SOCIETY 



Annual Meeting, January 12, 1886. 




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OLD STATE HOUSE. 
PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE SOCIETY, 

M.DCCC.LXXXVI. 



Press of 
CONANT & NEW HALL. 

:^2 Hawley Street, Boston. 



C ONTE NTS. 



I. President's Address, . . .5 

II. Report of the Directors, . . . 12 

III. Report of the Tricasurer, . . • '5 

IV. Report of the Committee on the Rooms, . 16 
V. Report of the Committee on the Library, . 33 

VI. Accessions to the Library Collections. . 34 

VII. Report of the Nominating Committee. . 36 

Vlfl. Accessions to the Society's. Collections, . i"] 

IX. Loan Collection, . . . . -43 

X. Officers for 1886. .... 45 

XI. Roll of Membership, . . . . .46 

XII. By-Laws, . . ... 52 



BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 



FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING. 



Boston, January 12, il 
Pursuant to notice duly issued by the clerk, the fifth annual 
meeting of the Bostonian Society was this day held in the Council 
Chamber, Old State House, at 3 P. M., the President, Curtis Guild 
in the chair. The records of the last meeting were read and 
approved. After the election of new members, the President 
addressed the Society as follows : — 

PRESIDENT GUILD'S ADDRESS. 

Fellow Members of the Bostojtian Society : 

The recurrence of this anniversary reminds us that another year 
of the life of our society has passed, and gives many of us a realiz- 
ing sense of the rapid flight of time, and the importance of our 
making the best use of it while we have the health, strength and 
opportunity to do so. 

I speak thus from the fact that societies like ours do a work, 
the benefit of which is largely realized by those who are to come 
after them, and while it may be a source of entertainment and in- 
struction for us to search out, verify and make clear records of the 
past history of Boston for the present generation, it behooves us 
to-day to use our efforts to preserve the best and most indisputable 
records of the history of our own times, for those that are to suc- 
ceed us here. 

"Familiarity breeds contempt," says the proverb, and until 

within a few years the intimate acquaintance of residents of Boston 

with localities and mementoes of the early history of the country 

and with the relics which the fathers of the Republic left behind 

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them all around us blunted appreciation of their value and impor- 
tance. 

A THOROUGH INDEPENDENCE. 

This country, or a large part of it, has, however, ceased to be a 
new or uncivilized portion of the world. It has passed through the 
settlement, provincial and experimental periods ; it has won so 
much in science, education, art and all that goes to make up the 
highest order of civilization, that it has taken position, won ac- 
knowledgment and maintained itself among the great powers of 
the earth as a nation not to be patronized and instructed, but de- 
ferred to and respected. During its last desperate struggle to per- 
petuate its existence, it not only determined its power to sustain 
itself in its entirety but emancipated itself thoroughly from any 
dependence whatever upon other nationalities as regards financial, 
political or economical policy, — and to-day is stronger to carry out 
a national policy of its own, and more independent than ever be- 
fore. As the two great sections yearly approach more closely to 
advance the common interests of the whole country, the strength- 
ening of this sentiment of real American independence in the 
minds of the American people tends to increase a national pride in 
the breast of every American citizen. He feels more reverence 
for everything in the history of his country and its government 
that contributed to establish it in its present position or will con- 
tribute to advance it still higher in the rank of nations. 

Being to-day more self-dependent ; acting upon our own respon- 
sibility ; able to sustain a purely American policy ; independent of 
foreign dictation ; it is natural that we should take pride in the acts 
of those fathers of the republic which led up to the present suc- 
cessful result. The national pride, which we all as citizens of 
Boston possess, is invigorated and strengthened by our local pride, 
a characteristic which is an important element in the development 
of a town, city or commonwealth. With this comparatively new 
era of feeling, it is not surprising that the sentiment which holds 
organizations like our society together is daily strengthening, and 
that its objects are not to-day stigmatized as only sentimental and 
unworthy the attention of practical utilitarians. 

VALUE OF SENTIMENT. 

Indeed the utility and practicalvalue of sentiment, as it is called, 



has been repeatedly developed in the history of this country. 
It was the sentiment that had been implanted in the heart of every 
American boy, at the much-abused Fourth of July celebrations, 
— the sentiment spouted by orators upon the platform, emphasized 
by the ringing of bells, blazing of bonfires, the firing of cannon and 
tiie waving of the Stripes and Stars from every flag staff in the 
land, that caused thousands to leap to the defence of that flag, and 
that causes re-united millions to-day to stand by it as the only 
standard of their country. And there is no city where local and 
national sentiment should have a stronger foothold than Boston, 
none where it can render greater service to the common good of 
all. 

Now that the nation has attained this truly independent position, 
it is natural that its citizens should wish to preserve the history of 
the events that led to the foundation of the republic and keep 
green the memory of those who pledged life, property and honor 
to build it. 

Public opinion is stronger to-day in the belief that a visible relic 
of the past tends to emphasize and strengthen an historic fact ; and 
it is better, even though in the pathway of trade, commerce and 
money-getting, that an occasional monument of that which is good 
and grand in the history of the past, should stand a challenging 
fact, rather than all should be swept away and dependence be 
placed solely upon the printed pages of the historian. 

MEMENTOES OF THE PAST. 

All know that illustrated books of history or travel are the most 
interesting, — the study of geography would be incomplete, indeed, 
without the illustrated atlas. How much better, therefore, may 
the history of Boston be studied by such real and actual illustra- 
tions that her citizens are able to preserve, like the Old South 
Church, King's Chapel, Faneuil Hall, Boston Common and the Old 
State House. How many more illustrations, so to speak, are there 
that need retouching and pointing out, that the rising generation 
may see here in this good old city, the actual mementoes of the 
greatest events of modern times ; of the events and of the men that 
they have read of in every school history of the United States of 
America. 

Americans cross the Atlantic to stand upon the walls of Chester, 



in the tower where Charles the First looked forth upon the defeat 
of his army on Rowton Moor, or to tread the field of Bannockburn, 
where the Scottish standard flouted the breeze, and the battle was 
fought which raised Bruce from a hunted rebel to the rank of an 
independent sovereign. But here at home, almost within rifle shot, 
is the field where the undisciplined American rustic obstinately 
opposed the trained and skilled veterans of the British array ; a half 
hour's ride and you stand upon the spot where George Washington 
with undaunted courage unsheathed his sword, beneath the great 
elm at Cambridge, to take command of the fourteen thousand raw 
militia which in 1775 formed the American army. It may be said 
that the American citizen must have a heart as cold and unsuscep- 
tible as a silver dollar, that can stand unmoved here for the first 
time, at this very window where the Declaration of Independence 
was first read to the people of Boston, the crowd standing upon the 
same spot that a few years before was red with the blood of the 
Boston Massacre ; or dull indeed to regard without interest the 
events that have occurred in this very hall we now occupy, — 
the birthplace of American Independence. 

The Old State House of Boston is the most genuine and indis- 
putable relic of the Revolution now existing. The walls that are 
about you are the selfsame that existed at the time of the Boston 
Massacre ; the windows the selfsame openings ; here where the 
Declaration was read in 1776 and the Proclamation of Peace in 
1783 ; there where Washington in 1789 reviewed the procession in 
his honor. Within these very walls some of the greatest events ot 
American history have occurred, and the greatest and most notable 
men who figured in those events been gathered together. 

In fact, the city of Boston is a focal point in the early history of 
the country, a central point to day from which the student of his- 
tory may start and trace out within the radius of a few miles the 
very tracks of Revolutionary history. The march to Lexington ; 
Paul Revere's Ride ; the Dorchester Fortifications ; Breed's Hill ; 
Head-quarters at Cambridge and other notable points will readily 
suggest themselves to all of you. These mementoes, these exist- 
ing relics of the glorious past — we should devote our attention and 
our local pride in preserving and keeping their record true, that 
the tourist, the patriot, the student of history may visit them with 



at least some portion of that interest shown for far less noteworthy 
but often more notable localities in the old countries. 

TRUE GREATNESS. 

Boston's local pride for its past history, its men and its institu- 
tions and its culture, needs no defence. The greatness of a city 
consists not in aggregation of territory, in volume of population, 
magnificence of buildings or luxuriousness of inhabitants, but 
rather in the character of its public men, the purity of their prin- 
ciples, the loftiness of their patriotism, and the cultivation of those 
higher arts and graces of civilization, that tend to elevate all com- 
munities. Rome may have laid Athens low with the sword, but 
Athens subjugated Rome with the stylus. 

Rome with all her imperial magnificence, her splendidly disci- 
plined legions, her wonderful executive government and her laws 
which have stood the models for the civilized world of later days 
owes to Greece whatever spirit of refinement, in art and literature 
crept in among that sturdy race of hard-handed peasantry, and 
from their descendants produced the scholars and poets who made 
the reign of Octavius Caesar the golden age indeed. 

While our local pride causes us justly to honor the lofty patriot- 
ism of Boston's sons of the past and to point out the examples of 
Otis, Adams, Hancock, Winthrop and others as worthy of emula- 
tion, it behooves us to look to it that the historical record that 
Boston is now making may be, as far as our efforts can form it, of 
corresponding brightness when it shall be held up to the gaze of 
future generations. As regards the work of our society, it must be 
admitted that an organization that faithfully carries out objects like 
ours must be beneficial to a city and of some advantage to the 
whole country. To promote the study of the history of Boston and 
preserve its antiquities is what we take upon ourselves to do as far 
as in us lies — an interesting and entertaining task to many of us 
who have grown up from youth to manhood within her limits and 
owe much of whatever measure of success or position we may have 
enjoyed, largely to the privileges of her institutions and the civic 
and commercial advantages she has afforded us. The city in which 
we have passed the largest portion of our active and business life 
is dear to us. We are proud of its past and solicitous for its future. 
The preservation of the records of the past exhibits so much that 



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we all have reason to be proud of, that it is a pleasure to recall them 
for the contemplation of the present and rising generation of 
Boston's citizens. 

THE society's WORK. 

The general active work of the society is voluntary, and, as we 
are still in the youthful stage of our existence, we must appeal to 
the public spirit of our members to aid in continuing the exercises 
here as interesting in character as they have been hitherto. The 
scope and influence of the society may be largely increased by 
effort in this direction. The past history of our city is rich in 
special features which may be brought out with information and 
instruction. Among them may be mentioned the topographical 
history of Boston, showing the many changes that have taken place 
during the past two centuries in its territory, as well as those that 
are now in progress, and indicating the possible future of the city. 

The municipal history would bring forward the progress of the 
city under her different honored chief magistrates, with anecdotes^ 
reminiscences and references to the past, and might develop how 
correct or fallacious was the judgment of those who went before us 
and what effect their government has had upon the progress of the 
city and of its institutions. 

The Boston merchants, from John Hancock down along the 
illustrious line which boasts the honored names of Appleton, 
Amory, Lawrence, Lowell, Gray, Otis, Bradlee, Shaw, Quincy and 
a host of others whose names were a synonym of honor and integ- 
rity and the record of whose enterprise and industry is inseparably 
connected with the most valued portion of the history of Boston — 
is in fact a portion of the chronicle of the city's advance in wealth, 
fame and commercial importance — forms a theme that many of 
their descendants could profitably present and which would be list- 
ened to with both profit and pleasure by an always interested 
audience. 

The story of our religious and charitable institutions, the rise 
and progress of our free school system, sketches of the lives of 
those who have but recently passed away and have contributed by 
their efforts and their example to place Boston among the foremost 
cities in this country as regards intelligence, culture, art, education 
and commercial prosperity, are all subjects that should claim the 
attention of our society. 



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HISTORICAL LOCALITIES. 



Notwithstanding the City Government has very properly in- 
dicated certain historical points of Boston, such as the Granary 
Burial Ground, the locality of the Hancock mansion, and a few 
others, the lack of knowledge respecting many celebrated and in- 
teresting historic localities within the city limits that exists even 
among those born and bred here is something surprising. It 
would really be a profitable and impressive method of instruction 
for the teachers of some of our schools, were they to visit, within 
easy walk of their schoolhouses, personally with their pupils the 
very scenes of history where the stirring events were enacted that 
are recorded in their text books. 

The visible mementoes of Boston's past history which we are 
enabled to exhibit in our permanent and loan collections in these 
Memorial Halls, small as the collections are at present, are inspect- 
ed with great interest and satisfaction by visitors from all parts of 
the country, and our thanks are due to many friends for loans of 
some of their most precious heir-looms that they have from time 
to time placed here in our custody on exhibition, affording the 
society and the public the privilege of inspecting them. Let me 
improve this opportunity to appeal to those who possess paintings, 
engravings, printed or written documents or any other mementoes 
relating to Boston's past history to afford an opportunity here for 
the public to view them, even if such mementoes be only loaned to 
the society for a few weeks. The constant care of two efficient 
custodians abundantly secures such relies from injury ; in fact, 
guardianship has been so efficient that no damage whatever has 
occurred to a single article in the collections here exhibited since 
we have occupied these halls. 

The reports of the directors, the treasurer, and the different com- 
mittees will reveal to you the present condition of the society, 
showing it to be in a flourishing condition, and the general interest 
of its members in its work and objects. To further its influence 
and render it still more effective I can only ask each member to 
endeavor in some manner to personally assist in the prosecution of 
the work necessary to faithfully and effectually carry out what has 
thus far proved to be worthy our best effort and attention. 



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REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS. 

Mr. Hamilton A. Hill then presented the annual report of the 
Board of Directors as follows : 

In presenting their Annual Report, the Directors are glad to be :| 
able to congratulate the members of the Bostonian Society upon 
its continued and increasing prosperity. 

For the year just closed, they have to report valuable accessions 
to the objects of interest on exhibition within these walls ; and a j 
larger number of visitors than in any previous year. The register 
shows the names of 6,732 in 1885, against 5,637 in 1884, an in- 
crease of 1,095. It is estimated, however, that not more than one- 
half of those who come here, record their names ; if this be so, the 
Society had from thirteen to fourteen thousand visitors in 1885. 
The places of residence of those who registered their names in 1884 
and 1885, may be grouped as follows : 

1884. 1885. 

Boston, 1.843 2,250 

Elsewhere in the United States, 3,462 4,180 

Foreign Countries, 332 302 



5.637 6,732 

The Society held nine monthly meetings during the year, and at 
six of these, interesting papers were presented, illustrating our 
local history. The subjects of these papers, and their authors 
were : 

April 14. "A New Chapter in the History of the Concord 
Fight" ; by Mr. William W. Wheildon. 

May 12. "Notes on the History of the Old State House" ; by 
George H. Moore, LL. D. 

June 8. "North Square and its Surroundings" ; by the Rev. 
Edward G. Porter. 

October 13. "The Life and Character of Peter Oliver, a Boston 
Man. The Last Chief Justice under the Crown" ; by Mr. Thomas 
Weston, Jr. 

November 10. "The Royall Place at Medford" ; by Mr. Franki 
E. Hatch. 

December 14. "George Robert Twelves Hewes, one of the 
Heroes of the Boston Tea Party" ; by Mr. Daniel T. V. Huntoon, 



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Feb. 6, 1885. 



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The Necrology of 1885 is as follows : 

Benjamin Apthorp Gould Fuller, born in Augusta, Me., May 23, 

1818, died in Boston, January 25, 1885. 
Thomas Baker Vose, born in Boston, March 25, 1805, died in Bos- 
ton, February 3, 1885. 
John Charles Phillips, born in Boston, October 2 r, 1838, died in 

Boston, March i, 1885 
Robert William Hooper, born in Marblehead, October 25, 18 10, 

died in Cambridge, April 13, 1885. 
John Wesley Wolcott, born in Portland, Me., July 31, 1819, died in 

Dedham, June 4, 1885. 
Charles Russell Train, born in Framingham, October 18, 18 17, died 

in Conway, N. H., July 29, 1885. 
John Allen Lewis, born in Barnstable, November 19, 18 19, died in 

Boston, November 2, 1885. 
Charles Octavius Whitmore, born in Bath, Me., November 7, 1802, 

died in Boston, November 15, 1885. 
Pearce Wentworth Penhallovv, born in Portsmouth, N. H., Feb- 
ruary 27, 1 817, died in Boston, December 8, 1885. 
Samuel Parkman Dexter, born in Boston, June 13, 1824, died in 
Dorchester, December 18, 1885. 
thaniel Walker, born in South Danvers, (now Peabody,) Feb- 
ruary 3, 18 16, died in Boston, December 26, 1885. 
The membership of our Society is about five hundred. With a 
little effort this number might easily be doubled. The effect of 
this would be to increase the interest of our fellow citizens of Bos- 
ton in the objects of the Society, and to extend the influence of the 
organization. It would also add materially to our revenues ; and 
this would enable us to avail ourselves of the opportunities which are 
offering from time to time for the purchase of historical objects in 
the department to which we give our thought and interest, and to 
publish with more fulness our transactions, and such contributions 
as we may make to our local history. The Society has distributed 
each year among its members, an illustrated pamphlet of perma- 
nent value, containing the proceedings at the annual meeting, and 
other matter. It has given to each of them, also, a set of engrav- 
ings from the plates (now belonging to the Society) which were 
used to illustrate Bowen's Picture of Boston, the first edition of 
I which appeared in 1829 ; and, more recently, a copy of Dr. Moore's 



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PiytancuDi Bostoniensis, — the address delivered by him here last 
May, and a most valuable addition to the literature of the Old State 
House. With a larger income, the Society could do much more for 
its membership in this direction. A diploma has been designed by 
a competent artist, and has been accepted by the Directors, which 
will be ready for distribution early in the current year. 

Independently of the work which this Society may attempt as a 
local historical society, it has a valid claim upon the interest and 
regard of the people of Boston, in that it affords to both residents 
and strangers, an additional place of resort, already attractive and 
instructive, and which may be made more and more so. In this 
and other cities, there are buildings which are visited for the sake 
of themselves, — their history and their associations ; and there are 
exhibitions which draw attention simply for what they contain, 
and without reference to the halls or galleries in which they are 
placed. It is the privilege of the Bostonian Society to invite the 
public to a building, which would deserve attention and awaken 
emotion, if these chambers were empty ; and, also, to an exhibition, 
which, if not now, may yet be made altogether worthy of its setting 

The Directors regret to have to announce that Mr. Daniel T. V. 
Huntoon, who has served the Society efficiently and faithfully as 
its Clerk during the last year, is obliged to decline re-election and to 
go from home for a time because of ill health. They are sure that 
all the members will unite with them in the sincere hope that Mr. 
Huntoon will soon be able to return to Boston, and to resume those 
historical labors which he has prosecuted for many years with so 
much success. 

Respectfully submitted, 

CURTIS GUILD, 
THOMAS C. AMORY, 
WILLIAM S. APPLETON, 
WILLIAM H. BALDWIN, 
JOSHUA P. BODFISH, 
JOHN T. HASSAM, 
HAMILTON A. HILL, 
SAMUEL H. RUSSELL, 

Directors. 
Boston, January ii, 1886. 



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The Treasurer then presented his annual report as follows : 
TREASURER'S REPORT. 



Receipts. 



Balance in Bank, January i, 1SS5, 
Life Memberships 
Admission Fees and Assessments 
Sales of Bowen Pamphlet . 
Interest ..... 



Expenditures. 



City Rent .... 

Compensation of Custodians 

Treasurer 

Frames 

Pictures &c. 

Books . 

Furniture 

Printing 

Repairs 

Diplomas 

Labor, expressing, etc. 



Balance 



. $: 


,207 


6 1 




650 


00 


I 


,980 


00 




2 


50 




61 


30 



$4,901 41 



$100 00 
566 00 
250 00 

172 32 

409 44 
94 86 
119 48 
403 85 
318 54 
175 00 
299 69 

$2,909 iS 
$1,992 23 

$4-901 41 



DANIEL T. V. HUNTOON, Treasurer. 



Boston, January nth, 1886. 
I have examined the cash account of the Treasurer to date, and find tlie same 
correctly cast and properly vouched, showing a balance on hand January ist, 
i886, of nineteen hundred and ninety-two dollars and twenty-three cents, of 
which nineteen hundred and fifty four dollars and forty-seven cents was in the 
New England Trust Company's account, ($2055.06 with $100.59 in checks, 
unpresented) and thirty-seven dollars and seventy-six cents in money in the 
Treasurer's petty cash account, namely : — 
N. E. Trust Companj', ...... $1,954 47 

Money, ......... 37 76 



Balance, 



$1,992 23 
SAMUEL H. RUSSELL, Comtnitfce. 



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Mr. James Rindge Stanwood then presented the third annual 
report of the Committee on the Rooms, as follows : — 

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE ROOMS. 

Mr. Chairman : — 

The Committee on the Rooms begs leave to offer the following 
report to the annual meeting : 

The last year has been one of material prosperity in that depart- 
ment of the Society's interests which has been intrusted to the 
care of this committee, which was constituted at the commence- 
ment of the year just closed, as follows : William H. Whitmore, 
Chairman ; Augustus T. Perkins, William S. Appleton, Samuel 
H. Russell, and James Rindge Stanwood. At a meeting of the 
committee, held on the thirty-first day of January, 1885, Mr. 
Perkins announced that he was unable to give to the work incum- 
bent upon it the time requisite, and therefore tendered his resigna- 
tion, which was reluctantly accepted. At a subsequent meeting, 
held upon the tenth of February following, a communication was 
received from the President of the Society, naming General Samuel 
M. Quincy to fill the vacancy. General Ouincy accepted the 
position, and the committee, as thus constituted, continued up to the 
thirty-first day of December, 1885. At a meeting of the com- 
mittee, held on that date, Mr. Whitmore offered his resignation as 
its Chairman, which was reluctantly accepted, and Mr. Russell was 
chosen to that position for the unexpired portion of the year which 
closes to-day. 

PROSPERITY OF THE SOCIETY'S INTERESTS. 

In making its report regarding the record of the year, your com- 
mittee with gratification announces that it has been one exhibiting 
a high degree of progress. The public in general has continued to 
manifest that sympathy with the advancement of the aims and 
objects of the Society which has been remarked in previous years. 
In fact, the interest felt in this community in the growth and suc- 
cessful prosecution of the work which we have undertaken, forms 1 
but a fractional portion of the exj^ression of public sentiment, as f 
made known to us from all portions of our country. The work 
which Boston has done, and is striving to do, in the placing of the 



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Old State House in the van of the historic buildings of America, 
by calling attention to the fact that she has consecrated it anew 
to that spirit of patrotism which is owned by every lover of his 
country, has been published throughout the length of the land. 
Every year produces additional evidence of this, in the constantly 
swelling roll of those who visit these halls. 

The City of Boston is reaping the reward of that wise spirit of 
foresight which actuated its legislators in rehabilitating this vener- 
able structure, in the grateful appreciation expressed throughout 
the country, as the story of its action has gone abroad, and the 
fame of its restored Old State House is invested by the stranger 
with a new interest, by the side of its Faneuil Hall. Of those who 
have so successfully consummated this work, we recognize as one 
of its foremost and most efTicient advocates, His Honor, Hugh 
O'Brien, Mayor of Boston, an honorary member of this Society, who 
may claim to have been identified with the inception of the move- 
ment in the City Council to undertake the work which has been 
so successfully accomplished. 

OIL PAINTINGS OF INTEREST. 

The list of donors to the Society's collections in the department 
intrusted to your committee, is a long and gratifying one, while a 
large number have additionally contributed to the Loan Collection, 
by depositing therein many articles of interest and value. Among 
the oil paintings which have been placed in our hands during the 
past year, we call attention to a fine portrait of the late Hon, 
Nathan Appleton,* painted by Healy, and lent by Captain Nathan 
Appleton, of this city ; a portrait of General Henry Dearborn,! of the 



• Nathan Appleton, LL. D., born in New Ipswich, N. H., October 6, 1779. In 1795 he engaged in 
business in Boston, and at a later perio !, became a partner with his brother Samuel. He was one of the 
first proprietors of the Waltham Cotton Factory, where, in 1814, the power-loom was first put in operation 
in this country; was one of the founders of Lowell, and was the projector and largest proprieti r of the 
Hamilton Company, of that city. He served repeated terms in the Legislature of Massachusetts, and was 
a member of Congress in 1831-33 and 1.S42. He was the author of a number of valuable pamphlets, among 
which maybe more immediately mentioned those upon banking and the tariff, and an account of the origin 
of the power-loom, and of the founding of Lowell, published in 185S. He died in Boston, July 14, 1S61. 

t Henry Dearborn, senior Major-General in the War of 1S12, bom in North Hampton, New Hampshire, 
February 23, 1751. He studied the profession of medicine with Doctor Hall Jackson, of Portsmouth, and 
settled in practice as a physician at Nottingham Square, in 1772. At the news of the battle of Lexington, 
he marched at the head of sixty volunteers for Cambridge, and upon his return was appointed first captain 
m the regiment of New Hampshire volunteers under command of Colonel John Stark. He participated in 



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United States Army, painted by Gilbert Stuart, and placed in our 
care by Miss Sarah Dearborn ; a portrait of General Joseph War- 
ren, * after the original by Copley, from Mrs. William Appleton ; 
portraits of John Adams, second President of the United States, 
and of Fisher Ames, LL.D., f from Mr. Edgar Parker, while we also 
acknowledge other favors of this description from John Lathrop, Esq., 
Mrs. F. E. Bacon, of Matapoisett, Mr. Henry M. Hughes of Medford, 
Mr. Samuel H. Russell, and others. We have also received in this 
department a fine vignette portrait of Benjamin Franklin, % painted 
on Sevres porcelain when ambassador to the court of France, and 



the battle of Bunker Hill, and was a member of Benedict Arnold's expedition to Canada, where he was 
taken prisoner in the attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775. He was exchanged in March, 1777, when he 
was commissioned as major of the 3rd New Hampshire Regiment, under Colonel Alexander Scanimell, and 
later served with distinction in the engagements of Stillwater, Saratoga and Monmouth. In 17S1 he was 
attached to Washington'sstaff as deputy quartermaster-general, with the rank of Colonel, in which capacity 
he served at the siege of Yorktown. Subsequently he served until the end of the war as Colonel of the ist 
New Hampshire regiment. Commissioned Brigadier General of militia in 17S7; Major-General in 1795 ; 
member ol Congress 1793 to 1797 : Secretary of War under President Jefferson 1801 to 1S09, and Collector 
of the Port of Boston from 1S09 to 1S12, when he was appointed by President Madison, January 27, 1812, 
senior Major General in the United States Army. He died at his home in Roxbury, Mass., June 6, 1829. 

* Joseph Warren, Major General in the Revolution, born in Roxbury, June 11, 1741. He was educated 
as a physician, and commenced practice in Boston in 1 7^2. He was made a member of the Committee of 
Correspondence in 1772 ; was delegate to the Massachusetts Congress of 1774; and its president after the 
withdrawal of John Hancock, while he was also Chairman of the Committee of Public Safety. He 
participated in the battle of Lexington, and upon the fourteenth of June following was Commissioned Major 
General by the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts. Three days later, he fell in the battle of Bunker 
Hill, June 17, 1775. 

t Fisher Ames, born in Dedham, April 9, 1758. He was educated to the profession of the law, and 
commenced us practice in Boston, in 17S1. In 17S8, he was returned as a member of Congress from the 
Suffolk District, defeating Samuel Adams for that position. He remained in that body from 1789 to 1797, 
and was acknowledged to be the most eloquent debater in the House of Representatives. He drew up the 
address of the House to President Washington, upon the occasion of his retirement from the Presidency, 
and was for several years a member of the Executive Council of Massachusetts. In 1S04 he was chosen 
President of Harvard College, but refused to accept that position. He died in Dedham, July 4, 1S08. 

I Benjamin Franklin, son of Josiah and Mary Franklin, was born in Boston, January 17, 1706. He 
left Boston at the age of seventeen, and established himself as a printer in Philadelphia. He subsequently 
went to England as a journeyman printer, but remaining only about a year, returned in 1726. In 1729, 
re-establishing himself in Philadelphia, he became the proprietor of the Philadelphia Gazette, and soon 
established for himself a high reputation. In 17',! he founded the Philadelphia Library ; was aiipointed 
Clerk ( f the General Assembly of Pennsylvania ni 1736 ; Postmaster of Philadelphia in 173;, and deputy 
Postmaster-General of the British Colonies in 1753. In 1754 he was sent as delegate to the Provincial 
Congress at Albany, and drew up the plan of union for the common defence which was subsequently 
adopted by that body. He was elected to the American Congress in 1775, was one of tlie committee to 
prepare, and a signer of, the Declaration of Independence, and from the close of 1776 until .September, 
1785, was ambassador to France. To him is due the principal credit of procuring the treaty of alliance 
with France, signed at Paris, February 6, 1778, which secured the independence of the American Colonies. 
He later took an important part in the negotiations with England, and signed the preliminary articles of 
peace at Paris, November 30, 1782. The definitive treaty was signed Septembers, 1783, by Franklin, 
Adams and Jay. He was governor of Pennsylvania from 17S6 to 1788, and delegate to the conventfon 
called to frame the Constitution of the United States, 1787. He died in Philadelphia, April 17, 1790. 



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given to this society by Mr. Charles S. and Miss Helen A. Lincoln, 
of New York City, through our fellow-member, Mr. Benjamin F. 
Stevens, of this city. 

STEEL AND COPPER-PLATE ENGRAVINGS. 

To the department of steel and copper-plate prints, your com- 
mittee reports a large and interesting list of accessions. We con- 
gratulate the Society upon the increasing disposition upon the part 
of the public to make these halls the repository of many valuable 
examples of this durable and exceedingly acceptable class of engrav- 
ings. The accessions under this head are so many and varied that 
we cannot adequately do justice to them here. VVe are constrained, 
however, to make mention of a few, to which we believe the at- 
tention of the Society should be especially called. Prominent 
among these latter, your committee notices a folio copper-plate 
mezzotint, deposited with us by the Clerk of this Society, Mr. Daniel 
T. V. Huntoon, of Canton. It is entitled : "His Excellency Samuel 
Adams, Esquire, Governor and Com^^-in-Chief in and over the 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts." It bears the name of Graham 
as its engraver, after a painting by Johnson, and although some- 
what stained, is yet in excellent condition. This print is a rare 
and valuable specimen, of which but very few examples are known 
to be extant, and was published May 17, 1797. * We have 
caused it to be placed in a prominent position at the end of the 
Representatives' Hall. 

We acknowledge the receipt of valuable steel-plate portraits of 
the late Doctor James Jackson, f and of Daniel Webster, from Moses 
W. Weld, M. D., of this city, whose gifts to the Society during the 
past year form a handsome aggregate. We further specify, among 
the accessions which have been received from Dr. Weld, a fine 



• Examples of this folio mezzotint are of great rarity ; Mr. William V. Wells, author of the Life and 
Public Services 0/ Samuel Adams {Boston: 1865), met, with but a single specimen, which is in the fine 
collection of prints owned by Mr. John W. Randall. 

t James Jackson, M. D., LL. D., born in Newburyport, October 3, 1777. He graduated at Harvard 
College in 1796, and in 1800 commenced the practice of medicine in Boston. In iSio, with Dr. J. C 
Warren, he proposed the establishment of a hospital in Boston, and subsequently the Massachusetts Gen- 
eral Hospital was established. Dr. Jackson was its first physician, and retained his connection with the 
institution until 1835. In iSio he was chosen professor of clinical medicine in the medical department of 
Hari-ard College; in 1812 professor of Theory and Practice until 1836, and professor emeritus from that 
time until his death, which occured in Boston, August 27, 1867. 



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medallion portrait in bronze, of the Reverend John Pierpont, D.D.,* 
minister of Hollis-street Church at one of the most interesting 
periods of its history. We acknowledge the receipt of a fine steel- 
plate portrait of the Reverend Benjamin Blydenburg Wisner, D. D., f 
pastor of the Old South Church from 1821 to 1832, from Miss 
M. R. Peabody ; of a steel-plate portrait of Edward Winslow.ij: 
Governor of the Plymouth Colony, from John Gilbert, the veteran 
comedian, of New York City, and of an impression upon large 
paper, of a fine steel-plate portrait of the late Wendell Phillips, 
(^F. T. Stuart, sc.) from Mr. James L. Hillard, while we report 
additional gifts of this class from Captain Nathan Appleton, Miss 
Caroline Dorr, Mr. Daniel T. V. Huntoon, of Canton, Mr. George 
W. Adams, Mr. William H. Whitmore, and others. 

LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTS. 

In this department of engraving, we note a most gratifying in- 
crease in the number of examples which have been placed in our 
possession. In the preceding annual report, your committee took 
occasion to call the attention of the members of the Society to the 
fact that additions to this class of prints in the Society's collections 
would be gratefully welcomed, and the sequence proves that the 



* The Reverend Jcihn Pierpont was born in Litchfield, Conn., April 6, 17S5. He was a lineal descend- 
ant of the Reverend James Pierpont, the second minister of New Haven. He at first adopted the 
profession of the law, was admitted to the Essex County bar in 1812, and practiced for a time in Newbury- 
port. Being compelled to relinquish this pursuit on account of ill health, after a short experience in 
mercantile life, he studied theology, and was ordained as pastor of Hollis-street Church in Boston, 
succeeding the Reverend Horace Holley, on April 14, iSig. The outspoken manner in which Doctor 
Pierpont insisted upon expressing his opinions upon the questions of Slavery and Temperance, finally led to 
the occurrence of a bitter controversy between himself and a portion of his parish, which continued for the 
space of seven years, at the close of which he requested a dismissal. He was subsequently settled for 
the term of four years over a parish in Troy, N. Y., and later (August i, 1849) over a church in Medford, 
Mass., which pastorate he resigned April 6, 1S56. He was a man of great natural abilities, an eloquent 
speaker and a ready writer. He died in Medford, August 27, 1866, at the age of eighty-one. 

t The Reverend Benjamin Blydenburg Wisner, D. D., pastor of the Old South Church from 1S21 to 
1832. He was born in Goshen, N. Y., September 29, 1794 ; graduated at Union College, in 1813 ; later 
studied theology at Princeton. He was Secretary of the American Board of Missions from 1832 until his 
death in 1835, which occurred in Boston, on February 9, of that year. 

t Edward Winslow, Governor of the Plymouth Colony in 1633, 1636, and 1644. He was born in Droit- 
wich, Worcestershire, England, October 19, 1595. In 1617 he joined the Church of the Reverend John 
Robinson at Leyden, and later came to America in the liLiyJiozver, being one of five brothers who emigrat- 
ed to America. In 1623 and 1624 he went twice to Europe as .^gent for the Colony. In 1649 he again 
went to England ; was prominent in organizing the .Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New 
England, while in 1655 he was constituted by Oliver Cromwell one of three commissioners, to superin- 
tend an expedition against the Spaniards in the West Indies. During the execution of this service, he 
died at sea, between St. Domingo and Jamaica, May 8, 1655. 



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suggestion thus conveyed has been answered in a practical man- 
ner, in the gift of many prints by which the collections in this de- 
partment have benefited greatly. Among the articles received, 
we mention especially those contributed by Miss Caroline Dorr, of 
this city, who has given to the Society several valuable examples 
executed by Pendleton and by the Sencf elder Press, of which we 
here mention portraits of the Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris, 
D. D., * the Reverend Eliphalet Porter, D. D., f the Reverend Abiel 
Abbott, D. D., J and the Reverend Jotham Sewall. We have like- 
wise received a fine specimen of the somewhat rare print issued 
hy Bufford in 1848, representing the present Suffolk jail on Charles 
Street, § in process of construction, from Mr. William S. Appleton. 
Your Committee has also added several specimens of this descrip- 
tion of work to the Society's collections during the year, by 
purchase ; among which are two especially fine views of Boston, 
respectively from East Boston and from Telegraph Hill, in South 
Boston. We take this opportunity to express our acknowledg- 
ments to Mr. William Willder Wheildon, of Concord ; Mr. Charles 
Carroll Kurtz, Miss M. R. Peabody, Mr. William W. Greenough, 
Mr. M. C. Ferris, Moses W. Weld, M. D., Mr. A. Frink, and Mr. 
Daniel T. V. Huntoon, of Canton, for further accessions of this 
class. 

PHOTOGRAPHIC AND HELIOTYPE REPRODUCTIONS, 

We now come to this important department of our work, of 
which it may be truly said, that the value of having it fully repre- 
sented among the Society's collections is self-evident. The face of 



• The Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris, D. D., born in Charlestown, Mass., July 17, 1768. He 
graduated at Harvard College in 17S7, via.s Librarian of that institution from 1791 to 1793; and upon 
October 23 of the latter year, was ordained as pastor of the First Church in Dorchester, occupying that 
position until 1839. He died in Boston, April 3, 1842. 

t The Reverend Eliphalet Porter, D. D., was born in North Bridgewater, Mass., June 11, 1758, and 
graduated at Harvard College in 1777. Upon October 2, 1782, he was ordained as pastor of the First 
Congregational Society in Roxbury, which position he retained until his death, which occurred December 
7i 1S33. 

t The Reverend Abiel Abbott, D. D., born in Andover, Mass., August 17, 1770. He was minister of 
Haverhill from June 8, 1795, to June 13, 1803, and subsequently of Beverly until 1S27. He died of yellow 
fever, in New York harbor, June 7, 1S28, upon his return from a Southern trip made on account of impaired 
htalth. 

§ View of the Neiu Jail for Suffolk CoJinty, in the State of Mussachusetis, erecting by the City of 
Boston, iifion Charles and North Grove streets.iS^S. GridleyJ. F. Bryant, Architect. Bufford, lith., 
frotn a drawing by H. Billings. 

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this city is constantly changing ; old buildings are being swept 
away, new streets are being created, entire localities are losing all 
features of their former identity, and the constantly advancing foot 
of commercial enterprise is rapidly and ruthlessly obliterating the 
traces of many parts of Boston, as it existed even a comparatively 
few years ago. It goes without saying, that the reproductive 
facilities furnished by the invaluable process of photography for- 
tunately render the chances of the preservation of the semblance of 
former buildings and localities possible at an expense which can be 
considered as merely nominal. To all to whom this report may 
come, we venture to call attention to the fact, that the preservation 
of these vanishing features of our city is one of the chief objects 
which we are specially privileged to compass. Let our fellow- 
citizens in this community bear in mind, then, that even what 
may appear at a casual glance as but a trifling change in a 
building or locality, is not too slight to be of importance in repre- 
senting the Boston of to-day to the eyes of those who are destined to 
view it half a century hence. Had our ancestors possessed the re- 
sources of photography, it is interesting to speculate upon what 
valuable early features of Boston, now forever lost, save in the 
comparatively rare instances where they have been preserved by 
the brush of the artist, or the patient and laborious work of the 
graver, would have enriched the present historical collections, 
marred by no hesitating or imperfect execution, but transferred, 
true to nature, to the appreciative hand of to-day, by the unerring 
and faithful rays of the sun. 

Your committee trusts that in the future, the disposition to call 
in the aid of photography, now being exhibited in the event of im- 
portant changes in our streets, may show the same proportional in- 
crease, and that those who may have occasion to thus photograph, 
will do us the favor to add a specimen to our collections. Among 
the accessions of the past year, we take pleasure in mentioning 
here the receipt of a view representing the mansion-house of the 
late Daniel Weld, M. D., on what was formerly called Boston Neck, 
at the corner of what is now Union-Park and Washington Streets, 
which was erected by Dr. Weld about the year 1800. This photo- 
graph, of great local interest, which forms a valuable addition to our 
collection of old Boston residences, was given us by Moses W. Weld, 
M. D., while it is most acceptably supplemented by a view of the old 



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Gardner mansion, which formerly stood upon Summer street, 
(anciently known as Seven-Star Lane) on the site of the present 
building occupied by Messrs C. F. Hovey and Company, which is 
presented to the Society by Mr. Moses H. Barnard, of Lynn. 
A third view, co-ordinate with these, represents the old May house, 
which formerly stood on Washington street, opposite Lucas Place, 
which is also given by Doctor Weld. The additions in this de- 
partment are so numerous, that it is impossible to even specify in 
passing, many which are richly deserving of special mention. In 
the descriptive list of accessions which we have annexed to this 
report, they will all be found noted as minutely as possible. We 
pause, however, to report the receipt of a fine portrait of the late 
Reverend Edward T. Taylor * (Father Taylor), from Mr. James 
Wallace Black ; a photographic reproduction of a lead-pencil sketch 
which was made by John Avery, junior, representing the residence 
of Henry Howell Williams, f erected in 1776 upon Noddle's Island, 
— the present East Boston, from Mr. Benjamin Williams Gilbert, 



• Edward Thomson Taylor, bom in Richmond Va., December 25, 1794. He was in early life a sailor, 
came to Boston in 181 1, and was converted that year in Bromfield-street Methodist Church, by the Reverend 
Elijah Hedding. In iSig, he entered the New England Conference as a travelling preacher, and until 1829 
travelled circuits along "he South Shore and on Cape Cod. In the latter year he was stationed as mariners' 
preacher at Boston, and from that time dates the record of his wonderful labors as a preacher, continued 
for a long period of years with uninterrupted success. In 1S30-32, through the earnest efforts of the late 
N. A. Barrett and other active merchants of this city, the general interest was aroused to such a degree 
that the Seamen's Bethel, in North Square, was erected in 1S33, imderthe auspices of the Boston Port 
Society, through funds donated by public subscription, and here "Father Taylor," as he subsequently came 
to be universally known, officiated for fifty-nine years, formally resigning the pastorate in 186S. He died in 
Boston, the fifth of April, 1S71, aged seventy-seven years. 

t Henry Howell Williams, from whom the old building took its name, was the son of Colonel Joseph 
Williams, and was born on October 23, 1736. "Upon January 28, 1762," says the late William H. Sumner, 
in his History of East Bostoti, (Boston : 1858) "he married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Bell, one of 
the lessees of Noddle's Island, and the same year took up his residence there. Here was his home until 
his removal to Chelsea, about the year i8oo. * * * * When the town of Boston was held by the British 
troops, and active hostilities were going on, Mr. Williams was placed in very trying circumstances. Situated 
without the limits of the city, on an island, he was constantly exposed to, and suffered from, the maraud- 
ing expeditions of the enemy. The fine house which he originally occupied, was burned, with all the 
furniture, and his stock of horses and cattle given away or killed by the Americans, to prevent the British 
taking possession of them. In partial remuneration for his loss, General Washington gave him a building 
used as barracks by the troops at Cambridge. This house (the one referred to here) he removed to the 
Island, and erected, and it w-as occupied by him as the family mansion, (little resembling however, the one 
which was burned) and after him, by his son, Thomas Williams, until the tenancy of the Island was relin- 
quished by the family. The house was of one story, with Lutheran windows in the roof in front, a passage- 
way or hall from the front to the rear, on each side of which was a large room with bedrooms adjoining the 
west or drawing-room, and an L part, consisting of two rooms used for kitchens, etc. According to Mr 
Williams's bills of the expense of buildings erected in 1776-77, the whole cost was £427. is. lod., and the 
buildings consisted of a house, barn, corn-barn, and store on the wharf. Henry Howell Williams died in 
Chelsea, December 26, 1S02. A fine portrait of him, by Stitarl, is owned by John Avery, Esquire, of 
Lowell." 



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while from Mr. Henry J. Parker we have received, among other 
valuable views, a photograph, taken from a drawing in sepia, 
representing the old Head mansion. This building, standing upon 
what afterwards became the site of the present Masonic Temple, 
was erected about the year 1763, and was removed in August, 1840. 
We have also received from Mrs. George Dearborn Oxnard, acces- 
sions of special interest, in two photographic views showing the 
interior of the old edifice of Brattle-Square church, taken just before 
the structure was removed, in 1872. They are taken from opposite 
points, looking respectively towards the organ and the pulpit, and 
thus together afford a complete view of the church interior. We 
are indebted to Hon. Thomas F. Temple, Register of Deeds for 
Suffolk, for a photographic reproduction of a rare original manu- 
script, entitled, "The Death Warrant of Bridget Bishop, of Salem, 
sentenced to suffer death for Witchcraft.''* This curious manuscript 



* In connection with this subject, it has seemed to us that the following details regarding the trial and 
execution of Bridget Bishop, furnished by the late Reverend Charles Wentworth Upham, in his annals 
of the Salem Witchcraft, {Boston : 1S67) would prove of interest here : 

"Another notability of the village was Bridget Bishop. In 1666, — then the widow Wasselbe, — she was 
married to Thomas Oliver. After his death she became the wife of Edward Bishop. He had resided, for 
some seven years previous to the witchcraft delusion, within the limits of Salem, near the Beverly line. 
His wife Bridget was a singular character, not easily described. She kept a house of refreshment for 
travellers, and a shovel-board for the entertainment of her guests; and generally seems to have counten- 
anced amusements and gayeties to an extent that e.vposea her to some scandal. She is described as wearing 
"a black cap and a black hat, and a red paragon bodice," bordered and looped with different colors. Her 
freedom from the austerity of Puritan manners, and disregard of conventional decorum in her conversation 
and conduct, brought her into disrepute, and the tongue of gossip was generally loosened against her. She 
was charged with witchcraft, and actually brought to trial on the charge, in 16S0, but was acquitted, the 
popular mind not being quite ripe for such proceedings as took place twelve years afterwards. ***** 
Upon the eighteenth of April, 1692, warrants were got out against Giles ("orey and Mary Warren, both of 
Salem Farms; Abigail Hobbsj wife of William Hobbs, of Toijsfield, and Bridget Bishop, wife of Edward 
Bishop, of Salem, for witchcraft, to be brought in the next forenoon at about eight o'clock, at the house of 
Lieutenant Nathaniel Ingersoll, of Salem Village, and upon the next day they were duly committed to 
prison. The court was opened at Salem, in the first week of June, 1692. Bridget Bishop was the only 
person tried at its first session. She was brought through Prison Lane, up Essex Street, by the First 
Church, up Town-house Lane, to the Court House. 

Cotton Mather, writing of her passage to the Court, furnishes the following curious illustration of the 
power excercised by this strange superstition upon the popular mind : "There was one strange thing with 
which the court was newly entertained. As this woman was under a guard, passing by the great and spa- 
cious meeting-house, she gave a look towards ihe house ; and immediately a demon, invisibly entering the 
meeting-house, lore down a part of it ; so that, though there was no person to be seen there, vet the people, 
at the noi«e, running in, found a board, which was strongly fastened with several nails, transported into 
another quarter of the house." Bridget Bishop was condemned, and executid upon the tenth of June. 
The sheriff leems to have proceeded, immediately after the execution, to the clerk's office, and indorsed 
his return on the warrant. When he wrote it, he added, after the word ''dead" "and buried her on the 
spot." On its occurring to him that the burying of the body was not inentioned in the warrant, he drew his 
pen through the w'ords, as is seen in the photograph. This superfluous clause, thus partially obliterated, is 
the only positive evidence we have of the disposal of the bodies at the time. * * * * The descendants of 
Bridget Bishop are very numerous in Salem ; embracing some of our oldest and most respectable families, 
and branching widely from them." 



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bears the signature of Plis Excellency, Governor Stoughton, is 
dated the eighth of June, 1692, and is addressed to "George Corvvin, 
Gent"- y'^ High Sheriff of y^ County of Essex." It bears the official 
return endorsed upon it by the Sheriff, testifying to the execution 
of the said Bridget Bishop upon the tenth of June, two days later. The 
place of execution is not given, but it was undoubtedly Witch Hill, 
so called, in Salem. For many valuable additions to this department, 
which want of space prevents us from naming in detail here, your 
committee expresses its thanks to Mr. Hamilton A. Hill, Mr. Francis 
H. Manning, Mr. Joseph G. Cupples, Mr. H. F. Warren, of 
Waltham, Mr. William H. Whitmore, Mr. Edward E. Higgins, of 
Chelsea, Mrs. Mary Sheafe Israel, and Mr. John P. Reed. 

In the department of heliotype reproductions, we acknowledge 
most acceptable accessions from the City of Boston, through the 
Superintendent of Public Buildings, Mr. James C. Tucker, and from 
the Commissioners of Public Institutions, through Hon. Albert 
T. Whiting, Chairman. These latter accessions represent fine 
views of the City Institutions known respectively as Deer Island, 
Rainsford Island, Charlestown District Alms-house, Austin Farm, 
and the Marcella-Street Home. From Captain Nathan Appleton 
we have received a copy of the design adopted for the Norseman 
Fountain to be erected in the Back Bay Park, in commemoration 
of the alleged visit of Lief, the Norwegian explorer, to these shores 
in the eleventh century ; while we are indebted to Francis Brooks, 
Esq., of Medford. for a heliotype portrait of Major General John 
Brooks, * of Medford, afterwards Governor, taken from the painting 
in oil by Gilbert Stuart. 

THE HENRY P. CURTIS COLLECTION. 

Since the last annual meeting, this Society has been the recipient 

* John Brooks, M. D., LL. D., born in Medford, Mass., May 31, 1752. At the ouibreak of the Revolu- 
tion he was engaged in the practice of medicine at Reading, and commanded a company of nr'nu'e-men, 
with whom, upon April ig, 1775, he did good service at the battle of Lexington. Upon the reorganization 
of thet'ontincntal Army in February, 1776, he was commissioned major of the Nineteenth Regiment, and 
accompanied it to Long Island. Early in 1777 he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel of the Kighth 
Regiment, and in 1778, upon the death of Col. Alden, was raised to the rank of Colonel. He especially 
distinguished himself at the battles of Saratoga and Monmouth At the close of the Revolution, he 
resumed the practice of medicine in Medford. He was for many years Major-General of the militia of his 
county, and as a member of the legislature actively supported the measures for supprersing Shay's Rtbel- 
lion. He was a delegate to the State Convention for the adoption of the Federal Constitution ; was 
appointed by Washington, marshal of hi^ distiict, and inspector of the revenue, in December, 1795. Dur- 
ing the war of 1S11-15 he was adjutant-general of Massachusetts, and governor from 1816 to 1S23. He 
was President of the Massachusetts Medical Society from 1817 until his death : and of the Society of the 
Cincinnati from 1787. He died March i, 1825. A fine portrait of him, by Gilbert Stuart, is owned by 
Francis Brooks, Esq., of Medford. 



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of a liberal and exceedingly valuable gift, in the form of an elabor- 
ate and carefully classified collection of over one hundred and 
eighty photographic views of buildings and localities in Boston, as 
they appeared between the years 1850 and 1885. Thedonor, one of 
our fellow members, whose name we have given to this remarkably 
fine collection, believing it essentially fitting thus to designate it, 
upon his return from abroad, in 1873, after an absence for a long- 
period of years, found his native city so greatly changed, that he 
decided upon forming a collection of photographs of all the blocks 
and single edifices in the so-called burnt district and elsewhere, 
that were to be obtained, in order to maintain fresh his memories 
of old Boston. This work he at once proceeded upon, leaving no 
means untried to render his collection as complete as possible. 
The result of years of unwearied, persevering effort in this direc- 
tion, the community has now before it. A superb collection of 
views of the Boston of the past, without doubt the finest and most 
complete in this city, has been brought together, and through the 
generosity of its founder, placed in the possession of this Society. 
Your committee, since the receipt of the collection, after careful 
deliberation, decided that the value of the gift could only be main- 
tained unimpaired through framing the views. To that end, Mr. 
James Rindge Stanwood was authorized, by vote, to make contract 
for the same, which was done in a very satisfactory manner in the 
early part of last June. They were placed in the western room in 
the third story of this building. The credit for the origination of 
the racks, which at present so satisfactorily accomodate the collec- 
tion, belongs to Mr. William H. Whitmore. These views, although 
they have been but a comparatively short time in position, have 
become one of the leading attractions of the building. 

SKETCHES AND WATER-COLOR DRAWINGS. 

Your committee announces several accessions of interest in the 
department of water-color drawings. Under tliis head, we call the 
attention of the Society to a view of Independence Hall, in Phila 
delphia, {E. D. Le%vis,pinx) taken in 1885, which was purchased 
by us at a reasonable figure. An excellent water-color drawing, 
representing State Street as it appeared about 1840, viewed from 
Merchants' Row, towards the Old State House, has been given us 
by Mr, C. C. Soule, while another of much interest, representing the 



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Old Corner Bookstore, executed by Miss C. E. Hollis, of this city, 
has been placed by her in the Loan Collection. The City of 
Boston, through the City Architect, Mr. A. H. Vinal, has also 
placed in our care a valuable original diagram in india ink, exhibit- 
ing the plan adopted in remodelling the Old State House for the 
uses of a City Hall, in 1830, as drawn by Isaiah Rogers, the architect 
in charge.* 

HOLLIS-STREET CHURCH RELICS. 

The past year has witnessed the last of the old church in Hollis 
street, f or rather, the close of its existence in the form of a religious 
edifice. It was purchased of the Society, by Mr. Robert B. Brigham, 
upon the twelfth of June, 1883, and in the early months of 1885, 
measures were taken by the owner to secure its remodelling and en- 

* When the restoration of this building was in progress, in iSSi, no plan of any kind could be found at 
City Hall, but through inquiry made by Mr. William H. Whitniore, of the committee of the City Govern- 
ment in charge of the work, and by Mr. George A. Clough, City Architect, it was discovered that in Cin- 
cinnati were living the heirs of Isaiah Rogers, who was the architect of the reconstruction in 1S30. His 
papers were found there, and among them a plan containing evidently the design then adopted. A fac- 
simile of this, greatly reduced, appears in the Old State House Metnorial, {Third Edition, \%'&<^,') p. 201. 
It shows the first and second floors, the circular staircase, and the locations (in pencil, as represented by 
dotted lines) of the desks of the members of the two branches of the City Council. The original diagram, 
now owned by the City of Boston, is at present hung in the Old State House. 

t Tha Reverend George L. Chaney, pastor of Hollisstreet Church from 1862 to 1S77, delivered two 
interesting and valuable discourses in 1876-77, relating to its history, from which we quote here as follows : 

"The site upon which the first meeting-house in Hollis street was erected, was given in 173 1 to William 
Pain, Esquire, by His Excellency Governor Belcher, on condition that he, "with a covenant number, 
would associate themselves together, and build a house for the publick worship of God." This first edifice 
was built in 1732, and upon the eighteenth of June of that year, the first sermon within its walls was 
preached by the Reverend Joseph Sewall, pastor of the Third (or Old South) Church. It was he who 
"more imn;ediately formed" or organized, the church here. He wrote its covenant, dedicated its house of 
worship with prayer, gave the charge to its first pastor, and laid the hand of ordination upon his head. 
This first pastor was the Reverend Mather Byles, a graduate of Harvard College, in the class of 1725, a 
gentleman of good ministerial extraction, counting Richard Mather and John Cotton among his ancestors, 
of sincere attachment to his chosen calling, and more than common fitness for its duties." 

The first edifice ol Hollis-street Church was destroyed by the fire of 17S7, and for a time its congregation 
came under the care of the Old South. The second building, as shown in an old copper-plate print, now rare, 
{S. Hill,sc.,) dedicated Aug. 31, 1788, and identified with the remarkable pastorate of the Reverend 
Horace HoUey, stood undl 1810, when it was removed to give place for the third and last church edifice 
built by the Society in Hollis street. Henry Blaney was the mason who superintended its erection. 

We have searched the files of the Columbian Ceutineliox the years iSio-ii, and found the following 
notices of the erection of the building : 

lVednesday,Jan. -^o, iSii. The new meeting-house in Hollis Street will be dedicated to-morrow, 

services to begin at eleven o'c'ock. 

IVednesday, Feb. 13, 181 1. On the 31st ult., the newly-erected meeting-house at the south part of 

the town was dedicated to the service of Almighty God. The services were introduced, and interspersed, 
with sacred music, psalms and hymns. The introductory prayer and the reading of select passages from 
the Holy Scriptures were by the Rev. Dr. Elliot. The Rev. Dr. Lathrop made the dedicatory prayer. 
A sermon was then delivered by Rev. Mr. Holley, and the concluding praytr was by Rev. Dr. Porter, of 
Roxburj'. The services, which were solemn, and peculiarly imprefsive, were clcifd with the Hallelujah 
chorus. This edifice, which is an ornament of the town, does credit tc the munificence of the citizens and 
the artisans at whose expense and under whose directions it has been erected. 



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largement, with elaborate improvements, into what is now one of the 
finest theatres in our city. At the commencement of these changes, 
Mr. Brigham very courteously offered us various valuable relics of the 
old building for preservation. The several articles, which comprised 
the old weather-vane, the cardinal points, and the copper finial 
which surmounted the lofty steeple, together with the marble tablet, 
commemorative of the several edifices erected upon the site,* and 
bearing the various dates of their erection, were presented to 
this Society by Mr. Brigham at the stated meeting for May last, 
and a formal resolution of thanks to the donor was unanimously 
adopted. Shortly afterwards, the Society received from Mr. B. 
Frederick Merritt, of Newton, the hands from the south dial of 
the old clock in the church tower, which was the gift of John 
Lucas, in iSii Subsequently, a valuable lithographic diagram, 
showing the interior of the church, as it appeared in 1834, at the 
time of the ministry of the Reverend John Pierpont, D. D., together 
with a complete list of the ownership of the pews at that thne, was 
very kindly given us by Mr. James P. Gordon. This was supple- 
mented by two fine photographic views, exhibiting the interior and 
exterior of the church, at the time of its abandonment by the 
Society, sent to us by Mr. Franklin Brown, chairman of its standing 
committee. The fact will always remain associated with the clos- 
ing days of this old church, that after the Society had held the last 
regular service within its walls, it was again opened by Mr. Brigham, 
on the sixth day of February, 1884, for the funeral rites of the late 
Wendell Phillips. 

* The old copper vane, originally put up in iSio, twice thrown down by lightning in 1S37, and each time 
mended and restored to its position, was finally taken from the steeple upon Thursday, April g, 1885, and 
in May follownig was given by Mr. Brigham to the Bostonian Society, together with the marble tablet 
built ip-to the Church tower, at the time of its erection, the inscription upon which reads as follows: 

First House for Public Worship 

Erected in this place A. D. 1732. 

Destroyed by Fire A. D. 17S7. 

Rebuilt, A. D. 17SS. 

Taken down & Rebuilt A. D. 1810. 
It may be well to nota here, that the two large mural tablets, bearing respectively the Decalogue and the 
Lord's Prayer, given by Benjamin Bussey upon the nineteenth of February, 1S15, wliich were placed on 
either side of the pulpit, were, when the church was abandoned by the Society, sent to the Revfrend Mr. 
Chaney's Church in Atlanta, Georgia, but proving too unwieldy to be there used, were eventually returned 
to the North, and sent to the Reverend Theodore Parker's old church in West Roxbury, Mass. 

The niini^ti-y of HoUis-street Church, from its fotuidation in 1731 down to the present time, is as follows: 
Mather Byles, 1732-1776; Ebenezer Wight, 177S-17S8; Samuel West, 17S9-1S0S; Horace HoIIey, 1S09- 
iSiS ; John Pierpont, 1819-1845 ; David Fosdick, 1846-1847 ; Thomas Starr King, 1848-1861 ; George L. 
Chaney, 1S62-1S77; H. Bernard Carpenter, iS7S-present pastor. The present church edifice of the Society 
is situated at the corner of Exeter and Newbury streets. 



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OBJECTS OF INTEREST. 

The record of the various objects of interest and historical value 
which have been placed in the hands of your committee during the 
past year is a long one, of which it is impossible to treat in the 
pages of this report with that minuteness which it deserves. We 
shall be able to mention but a few, and for an enumeration in detail, 
refer our fellow members to the descriptive list herewith annexed.*A 
very valuable broadside has been deposited in the Loan Collection 
by Mr. Daniel T. V. Huntoon, being an original impression of the 
famous proclamation issued by His Excellency Governor Gage, at 
Boston, on the twelfth of June, 1775. A curious feature exhibited 
in this document will, upon examination, be found in the significant 
fact, that in the preamble, in which the King's representative is 
styled "Captain-General and Governour-in-Chief in and over the 
Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, " a pen 
stroke is drawn through the latter portion of the sentence, and the 
necessary words substituted in writing, so that the sentence reads : 
"His Excellency, Thomas Gage, Esquire, Captain-General and 
Governour-in-Chief in and over the Town of Boston." This is a 
recognition by the Governor of the fact that his actual authority 
was virtually limited to his military control of Boston, his claim to 
jurisdiction over the Province of Massachusetts-Bay having been 
repudiated by its inhabitants. Another interesting feature of 
this broadside is to be found in the clause in which the King's 
Governor urges the citizens of Boston to return to their alle- 
giance, promising in the name of His Majesty, a "free and full 
pardon to all, excepting only from the benefit of such pardon, 
Samuel Adams and John Hancock, whose offences are of too 
flagitious a nature to admit of any other than condign punish- 
ment." 

Among the valuable parchments which have been deposited in 
the Loan Collection, is the commission issued by His Excellency, 
Governor Hancock, to Henry Dearborn, appointing him Brigadier- 
General of the Eighth Division of the Militia of the Commonwealth 
of Massachusetts, which was signed in the Council Chamber in this 

*It is proper to state, that at the annual meeting, at which this report was presented, a full list of the 
accessions to the Society's collections during the past year was likewise submitted. That list, after its 
receipt by the officers of the Society, was unfortunately mislaid, and therefore does not appear here. 
The list printed in the following pages is a fresh one, which has been compiled under the direction of 
the new committee, and a different plan for its arrangement has been adopted. 



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building, upon the twenty-sixth of November, 1787. It is the 
property of Mr. George H. Allan, of this city, to whom we are 
indebted for another interesting document placed in our care, in the 
form of a commission issued to Jeremiah Hill, Esquire, as "Captain 
in the Regiment whereof James Scammon is Colonel, raised for the 
defence of the Colony." The commission is issued by "The 
Congress of the Colony of the Massachusetts-Bay," and is signed 
by Major-General Joseph Warren as its President, upon the nine- 
teenth of May, 1775. 

We have received from the Reverend Edward G. Porter, of 
Lexington, the gift of a communion-cloth of old Saxon linen, which 
was given to the Old North Church, in North Square, by Deacon 
Joseph Kettcll, in 1812. Mr. George W. Forristall has likewise 
given to the Society a very interesting relic, in the form of a banneret 
of white silk, borne by Edward Carnes, in the Riggers' Department* 
of the procession which welcomed Washington to Boston, in 1789, 
and was reviewed by him from a temporary balcony erected in 
front of the middle window at the western end of the Representa- 
tives' Hall in this building. f Mr. C. D. Head has given us two Post- 
masters' notices issued in 1745, to one of which attaches special 

* The Riggers' Deiaitrcent was No. 31 in the order of the various trades, as represented in the pro- 
cession. It will be noted, upon examination of this banneret, that Mr. Carnes, who bore it at the head of 
his delegation, scrupulously observed the recommendation contained in the circular issued upon tlie 
nineteenth of October, 17S9, by the committee appointed to supervise the ceremonies, which suggested, 
"that the person who shall be chosen as head of each order of Artizans, Tradesmen, Manufacturers, &c., 
sha'l be known by displaying A WHITE FLAG, with some device thereon expressive of their several 
callings, and to be numbered as in the arrangement that follows, which is alphabetically disposed, in 
order to give gtncral satisfaction. The Artisans, &c. , to display such insignia of their craft, as they can 
conveniently carry in their hands. That uniformity may not be wanting, it is desired that the several Flag- 
staffs be SEVEN feet long, and the Flags A YARD SQUARE." 

Upon the occasion of Washington's visit to Boston, in 17S9, the Old State House was the centre of the 
pageant in his honor. The lilassachjisetts ISIagazitie for January', 1790, contains a view of much histori- 
cal inteiest, and an account of the decorations upon and immediately adjoining this building, entitled, 
" Description of the Trn.mphal Arch and Colonnade, erected at Boston, in hcnour of the President of the 
United States, October 24, 17S9." The Arch was erected across Washington street, just north of the State 
House, tut want of 100m compels us to omit the minute description of it. We print, however, the follow- 
ing account of the decoration of the Old State House, as prepared for the reception of its iliustrious 
guest: 

"The Colonnade (designed by Hon. Mr. Dawes,) was erected at the west end of the State House, 
adjacent to the Arch. It was composed of six large columns, 15 feet high, and a balustrade, hung in front 
with Persian carpets, on which were wrought 13 roses. The circle of the Colonnade measured 44 feet, acd 
projected boldly into the main street, so as to exhibit in a strong liglit, ' The 7>ian 0/ the people.'' The 
central west window of the State House, was the door throrgh which the President passed to the balus- 
trade, descending from a platform four easy steps, to the floor of the gallery, which was furnished with 
arm-chairs and spread with rich carpets. On this platform was a pedestal covered with gieen, supportit g 
the figure of Plcjity, with her Conmcopite and other emblems. As soon as the President entered this 
Colonnade .he was saluted by three huzzas from the citizens, and by an Ode sung by a select choir of 
singers, seated under tie caropy erected over the arch. The whole formed an agreeable spectacle, and 
heightened the pleasure of the day." 



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interest, from the fact that it bears the autograph signature of 
Benjamin Franklin as postmaster of Philadelphia. 

Mr. Charles Downer has sent to the Society, through Colonel 
Henry Walker, an oaken gavel made from one of the beams in the 
frame of Christ Church, on Salem street, and Mr. Samuel Dean 
Horton, of Dorchester, an autograph letter of Daniel Webster, while 
Mr. Charles Breck, of Milton, has given an ancient mirror which 
was formerly in Governor Thomas Hutchinson's country residence 
at Milton,* together with a cannon-ball that was fired by the British 
into General Washington's camp at Cambridge. For numerous 
articles which have been deposited in its hands, which will be 
found elsewhere noted, your committee expresses its thanks to Miss 
Caroline S. Staples, Mr. Charles Lowell Hancock, Mr. Henry 
Belknap, Mr. John T. Prince, Mr. Stacy Hall, Mr. J D. W. French, 
Mr. Joseph H. Hunneman, Captain John S. Damrell, Mr. David 
Piilsifer, Mr. Edward MacDonald, Mr. W. K. Watkins, Mr. Eben 
Dorr, Mr. W. Tracy Eustis, and others. 

ACCESSIONS TO THE SOCIETY'S COLLECTIONS. 

Your committee congratulates the Society upon the fact, that 
the additions to the various departments under its care aggregate 
the largest total for the year, ever reached in its annals. The list 
of accessions, inclusive of the Henry P. Curtis Collection, has 
risen to the handsome figure of three hundred and eightv-five. 
while the number of articles which have been deposited in the 
Loan Collection is sixty-eight. We are not unmindful of the fact, 
that, in face of this satisfactory exhibit, it may be supposed that 
the Society may lack the space for accomodating such articles as 
many persons in the community may from time to time be disposed 
to send us. To such, we would say, that of the large number of 
objects represented in the Loan Collection, many are withdrawn 
in the course of the year, so that there is always room for such new 
accessions as may be placed in our possession. 

RECORD OF THE REGISTER. 

The register placed in these halls for the inscription of the 

* "Hutchinson purchased in 1743," says Hon. James M. Robbin?, in an address delivered in Milton, 
in 1S62, "of Joseph Belcher's heirs, 100 acres of land on Milton Hill, built the house now occupied by the 
Russell family, and resided there a large part of the time for thirty years. * * * * After the mob invaded 
his house in Boston, in 1765, he spent most of his time here." The horse was subsequently to 1S62 taken 
down — a measure rendered necessary by its decayed condition, — but it was immediately rebuilt by the 
present owner, upon the same site, as nearly as possible in the manut r of the original. 



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names of visitors, exhibits satisfactory proof of the increasing inter- 
est which is manifested in the advancement of the aims of this 
Society. The registry is of course optional upon the part of the 
visitor, and cannot be accepted as an accurate index of the number 
of people who visit these halls during the year. The total number 
of autographs placed upon the book between January i, 1885, and 
January i, 1886, is six thousand, two hundred and thirty-two. Of 
these, two thousand, two hundred and fifty were residents of 
Boston ; four thousand, one hundred and eighty resident elsewhere 
in the United States, and three hundred and two from foreign 
countries. 

In the early part of the summer of 1885, these halls were closed 
to visitors from the second to the twenty-seventh day of July, 
inclusive. During this period, the rooms were painted by the City 
of Boston, and placed in the very satisfactory condition in which 
they now appear. It must be accepted as a significant fact, that 
despite the loss of nearly a month at the season when visitors are 
specially numerous, the proportion of increase has been sufficient 
to place one thousand, one hundred and five names on the register, 
in excess of the record of the previous year. Your committee, 
after giving the subject its attention, announces that a careful 
calculation allows a margin of fifty per cent, for the presence of 
visitors who do not elect to register, which would indicate a fair 
estimate of the total number of persons who have viewed the halls, 
to be between twelve and fifteen thousand. 

In closing its report, your committee returns its cordial thanks to 
its fellow members, and to the community in general, for the 
sympathy and support which has been accorded to it. The year 
which closes to-day has been a prosperous one in the departments 
which have been intrusted to us. We acknowledge gratefully the 
confidence reposed in us by many of our fellow-citizens, who have 
placed numerous articles of value in the Loan Collection, and 
improve this opportunity to express the hope, that the same gener- 
ous disposition may be shown in the future to forward the objects 
of the Society, which has been manifest in the past. 

All of which is respectfully submitted. 



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Mr. James L Whitney then reported, in behalf of the Committee 
on the Library. 

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE LIBRARY. 

The Committee on the Library, in making their second annual 
report, wish to return thanks, in behalf of the Bostonian Society, 
to those persons who have given books and pamphlets to increase 
the Library. The additions to the Library during the past year 
have been one hundred and eighty-four volumes, and one hundred and 
twenty-six pamphlets : of these, sixty-three volumes have been pur- 
chased ; the remainder are gifts from sixty-three different persons. 

The entire collection now numbers five hundred and twenty 
bound volumes, and numerous pamphlets. To one wishing to 
study the history, the topography, or the customs of Boston, these 
books will give much information. It is hoped that at no distant 
time the Library may assume some degree of completeness. To 
this end the Committee invite gifts of books, pamphlets, maps and 
prints, illustrating the history of this city. Biographies of citizens 
of Boston will be especially welcome additions to the Library. 

The Committee respectfully submit the following list of acces- 
sions during the past year, [See next page.] 



34 



ACCESSIONS TO THE LIBRARY COLLECTIONS -1885. 





Volumes 


Pamph- 
lets. 


Academy of Natural Sciences, Davenport, Iowa 




2 


Hon. John F. Andrew ..... 




3 


George T. Angell, 


I 




William S. Appleton 


I 




John Ayres ........ 


I 




C. J. F. Binney 


2 




Boston Public Library ...... 


3 


2 


Brooklyn Library ....... 




I 


Buffalo Historical Society ..... 


I 


1 


James M. Bugbee ...... 


I 




Bunker Hill Monument Association 


I 




W. C. Burrage ....... 


1 




Dr. &: Mrs. John S. Butler, Flartford, Conn. 


I 




Hon. Mellen Chamberlain ..... 




'J 


Charles Chaplin ....... 


2 


5 


City of Boston ...... 


I 




Rev. B. F. DeCosta, New York .... 




3 


William H. Dennet 


4 


3 


James A. Dupee ....... 







Essex Institute, Salem, Mass. .... 


2 




Dana Estes ........ 


2 




Rev. William C. Gannett & Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells 


I 


32 


Georgia Historical Society 




7 


Curtis Guild ........ 


5 


6 


Mrs. Nathaniel Hall, Dorchester .... 


I 


2 


John T. Hassam ....... 


I 


I 


Hamilton A. Hill 




13 


Samuel D. Horton, Dorchester .... 


I 




Mrs. Julia Ward Howe 


I 




James M. Hubbard .... . . 


I 




Daniel T. V. Huntoon 


6 


I 


Mercantile Library Association, New York 




I 


Mercantile Library Association, San Francisco . 




I 


Milwaukee Public Library 




2 


Minnesota Historical Society .... 




2 


Dr. George H. Moore, New York .... 


2 





45 



90 



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Volumes. 


Pamph 

LETS. 


Number brought forward^ ...... 


45 


90 


L. Foster Morse ....... 


20 




New Bedford Public Library 




I 


New England Historic Genealogical Society 


6 




Sereno D. Nickerson ...... 


6 




Numismatic and Antiquarian Society, of Philadelphia 




I 


Old Colony Historical Society .... 


I 




Nathaniel Paine, Worcester ..... 


2 




Rev. Edward C. Porter, Lexington 


I 




Josiah P. Quincy ....... 




1 


Record Commissioners of Boston 


4 




John P. Reed 


5 


5 


Samuel H. Russell 


5 




Samuel S. Shaw ....... 


5 


.6 


Estate of Thomas C Smith, by William S. Carter 


5 


3 


Suffolk County Commissioners .... 


I 




Miss Anna E. Ticknor 


3 




Mrs. James Tolman ...... 


I 




Frederick Tuckerman 




I 


University of California 


I 


I 


J. Collins Warren, M. D 


2 




W. K. Watkins 




I 


William W. Wheildon, Concord, Mass. 


2 


2 


James L. Whitney 


I 


3 


Hon. Robert C. Winthrop 


2 




Woburn Public Library 




I 


Anonymous ........ 


3 




Purchased 


63 





184 



126 



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Mr. N. H. Henchman, in behalf of the Nominating Committee, 
reported the names of the following gentlemen for Directors for 
the ensuing year. 

THOMAS C. AMORY. 
THOMAS J. ALLEN. 
WILLIAM S. APPLETON, 
JOSHUA P. BODFISH, 
CURTIS GUILD. 
JOHN T. HASSAM, 
HAMILTON A. HILL, 
SAMUEL H. RUSSELL, 
WILLIAM WILKINS WARREN. 

In regard to the nomination of a gentleman for Clerk and Treas- 
urer, the Committee asked for further time, which was granted. 

A ballot was then taken and the foregoing list of candidates 
declared to be duly elected Directors of the Society for the ensuing 
year. 

Rev. J. P. Bodfish moved an amendment to the By-Laws, 
namely: — Article XVI, Section i, as printed in this Report, re- 
garding the Committee on the Rooms, which was adopted unani- 
mously. 

On motion of Mr. Erving Winslow, it was 

Voted, that the address of the President and the Reports pre- 
sented at the meeting be referred to the Board of Directors, with 
authority to print so much of them as they deem expedient in the 
Annual Report, and they also have authority to print one or more 
of the valuable papers read before the Society during the year, 
wholly or in part. 

On motion of Rev. J. P. Bodfish, it was 

Voted, that the thanks of the Society be extended to Mr. D. T. 
V. Huntoon, Mr. W. H. Whitmore, and other retiring officers. 

Adjourned. 

DANIEL T. V. HUNTOON, Clerk. 



ACCESSIONS 
TO THE SOCIETY'S COLLECTIONS, 1885* 



GIFTS AND PURCHASES. 



DONOR. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Adams, Geo. W. 



Appleton, Nathan 



Appleton, Wm. S. 



Eng. 

Photo. 
Photo. 
Eng. 

Eng. 

Eng. 

Photo. 



Pencil 
Drawing. 
Ens:. 



Photo. 
Photo 



Certificate of Association of Franklin Medal 
Scholars, Oct. 5, 1S57. Edward Everett, Presi- 
dent. 

Badge worn at the inauguration of the Franklin 
Statue, Sept. 17, 1S56. 

Thomas Gold Appleton. 

Sketch of the Norseman fountain for Back Baj 
Park. //. H. Richardson. 

Room of the Panama Canal Co., showing por- 
trait of DeLesseps at the P^oreign Exhibition, 
Boston, 1SS3-84. 

Certificate, certifying payment by T. G. Apple- 
ton, of one hundred dollars toward the 
erection of statue of Franklin, signed R. C. 
Winthrop, 1854. 

Certificate, conferring degree of B. A. to T. G. 
Appleton, August 31, 1831, Josiah Q^iiincy 
Pres. On Parchment. 

Passport of T. G. Appleton, from Messina, 
Sicily, through Catania and Syracuse to 
Malta, with the arms of the Prince of Cassaro, 
seals of various Consuls. 

Seven passports through Great Britain and Italy. 

Signing the Treatj' of Peace between United 
States and Great Britain, Sept. 3, 17S3. Ex- 
hibited at the Foreign Exhibition, in Boston, 
Sept. 3, 18S3. Photografihcd from a bas- 
relief. 

Interior of Boston Market. T. G. Appleton. 
Ticket to Dinner, given in honor of Paul Mur- 
phy, by the Boston Chess Club, Revere 
House, May 31, 1859, ^"^ ^ o'clock P. M. 

Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis. 

Robt. C. Winthrop. Original at Washington. 



* A Catalogue of the Books and Pamphlets in the Library, will be issued wlien the Collection is sufficiently 
large to warrant it. 



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DONOR. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Appleton, William S. 
Bostonian Society. 



Boston, Citv of. Depart. 

Public Buildings. 
Black, J. W. 

Breck, Charles. 



Brown, Franklin. 
Brigham, Robt. B. 



Brooks, Francis. 
Chase, W. 



Eng. 
Steel Eng. 



Transparent 
Mezzotint 
Col'd. 



Mezzotint. 

Copper- 
Plate Eng. 
Heliotvpe. 

Lith. 

Oil paint'g 



Water col- 
or paint'g. 



Photo. 



Eng. 
Photo. 



Plan of Boston, iSio. 

Paul Revere. Gilbert Stuart. Eftg. by S. A. 
Schoff. 

Geo. Ill, printed by John Bowles, at the Black 
Horse, Cornhill. Pttrcell, fecit after Frye. 
From the Read sale, Cambridge. Purchased 
by S. H. Russell. 

Charlotte, Qiieen of George III. Purcell, fecit 
after Frye. From the Read sale, Cambridge, 
Purchased by S. H. Russell. 

William Augustus Duke, of Cumberland, jf. 
Faber, ad Vivum dclin ct fecit. Purchased 
at Beverly. 

Tea-tax Tempest, or the American Revolution. 
Engraved in 177S. Purchased at Beverly 

Boston Light, with an English War Ship in the 
foreground. After W. Burgess. 

View of Boston, 1 84S. C. E. Whitefield. 

Boston, from Telegraph Hill, So. Boston. Tap- 
pan <£■ Bradford . 

George Robert Twelves Hewes, aged 100 years, 
member of the Boston Tea Party, 1773. J. 
G. Cole, Artist. Pai7ited from life, in 18^5. 
From Henry W. Hczves, IV. Med ford. 

Independence Hall, Philadelphia. E.D, Lexvis, 
Artist. 

Seven plates, one platter, representing two views 
of the State Mouse, one view each.Thos. H.Per- 
kins' house, afterwards Boston Ath^neiun, Hos- 
pital, Court House, Commercial Whart^ and 
Octagon Church. Purchased of Mrs. Isabelle 
yames. Made by Stephens, Rogers and others. 

Ten photographic views of City Institutions. 

Father E.T.Taylor, Pastor of the Bethel Church. 

Crystal Palace, Lincoln Street, demolished 1SS5, 

Cannon Ball, fired into the American camp, at 
Cambridge, during the Revolution. 

Mirror, formerly in residence of Gov. Thomas 
Hutchinson, Milton, heavily framed in antique 
manner. 

The interior and exterior of Hollis Street 

Church, built iSio. 
Vane and finials of the Hollis Street Church. 
Marble tablet from Hollis Street Church, marked 

"First House for public worship in this place, 

built A. D. 1732 Destroyed by ftre. 17S7. 

Rebuilt 17SS. Taken down and rebuilt iSio. 
Maj. Gen. John Brooks. Gilbert Stuart, pinx. 
Old Masonic Hall, afterwards U.S. Court House, 



39 



DONOR. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Chipman, J. C. W. 



Photo. 



Cupples, Geo. G. Photo 



Curtis, Henry Pelham, 



Dennet, William H. 
Dorr. Eben. 

Dorr, Miss Caroline. 



Downer, Charles. 

Djer, Mrs. F. W. 
Eustis, W. Tracy. 

Ferris, Mortimer C. 
Forristall, Geo. W. 



WoodEng. 



Eng. 
Lith. 



Eng. 



Lith. 



Enj 



Three interior views of the Hancock House. 
Parlor, on the piano are the bibles of Gov. 
Hancock's father and great-grandfather, ( min- 
isters at Braintree and Lexington), the Gov- 
ernor's cane in the corner. 
Hall, and upper landing, on the left, the 
Governor's room, v.'here he died. On the 
right, the room occupied by Washington, 
Lafayette and others. 

Reception Room : portrait of Gov. Hancock 
by Copley, and of Thomas Hancock by same 
artist. Raised from negative by J. \V. Black. 
Two photographs of marble groups on Post 
Office building. 

(i) Labor, Dependence and Fine Arts. 
(2) Science, controlling the forces of electri- 
city and steam. D. C. French, Sculp. G. C. 
Cox, Phot'r. 
One hundred and eighty photographs of ancient 
buildings and streets in Boston, as they 
appeared from 1850. The finest Collection in 
existence. 
Portrait of William A. Brewer, Pres. Amer- 

Phar. Society, 1S53. 
Proclamation by the Selectmen to the Citizens 
of Boston, that, "effectual measures be adopted 
to prevent the introduction of the infectious 
disease now prevalent in Philadelphia, into 
this Commonwealth." 
Rev. B. B. Wisner. 
Four portraits, 

Rev. Eliphalet Porter, D.D. 
Abiel Abbott, D. D. 
" T. M. Harris. 
" John Pierce. 
Certificate of Membership to Bunker Hill Monu- 
ment Association. 
John Codman, Boston Merchant. 5. Pelton, sc. 
Old South Church, 1848. Bufford. 
Oaken Gavel from frame of Old North Church, 
P'rom the belfry of this Church were hung the 
signal lanterns to Paul Revere. 
Badge worn at funeral of Gen. Lafayette, with 

his portrait in Medallion. 
Sword with a marlin scabbard, blade engraved 
with astronomical emblems, used on board of 
one of Perry's ships, lake Erie, 1814. 
View of south west side of State Street, 1S42. 

Volcker, Archt. Thayer, Eng. 
Portion of one of the original posts on Bunker 
Hill, when the first monument was erected, 
1794. 

A Banneret of white silk, borne by Edw.Carnes, 
in the welcome to Washington, 17S9 



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DONOR. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Foi-ristall, Geo. W. 
Frink, Alden. 

Gilbert, Benj. W. 

Gilbert, John. 



Gordon, J. P. 

Guild. Curtis. 

Hall, Stacj. 

Hancock, Chas. L. 
Head, C D. 
Hewins, Alfred. 

Hemmenwaj, Geo. 
Hill, Hamilton A. 



Hillard, James L. 
Huntoon, D. T. V. 



Hunneman, Jos. W. 
Jones, Edw. J. 

Kurtz, C. Carroll. 



Col'dLith. 



Photo. 



Steel Eng. 



Eng. 



Photo. 



Steel Eni 



Photo. 
Eng. 



Chro.Lith 



View of first Bunker Hill Monument, printed 

on satin. 
Minot's Ledge Light, also showing the old 

light, destroyed 1S51. Aldeti Frink. Biirn'U, 

Lith. 
Woodbine Cottage, E. Boston, 1S24, known as 

the Williams residence. After Pencil Dra-jj- 

ing 1>V JuJin Avery., Jr. 
Portrait of John Gilbert. Comedian. After 

Sarony, by Butt re. 
Portrait of Gov. Edward Winslow in antique 

frame. 
One pair of gloves with portrait of Lafayette. 

Worn in jSj^, on the visit of Lafayette to 

Boston. 
Diagram showing pews and names of owners in 

Hollis Street Church. 
View of Boston Stone, 1735, Marshall Street, 

also the stone used to grind paint, on the 

same. y. A/. Falconer, del ct. sc, 1SS2. 
Copper bullet mould of the Revolutionary 

period. 
Steel instrument used for extracting teeth, 
''air metal Shoe Buckle>. 
Ticket in Faneuil Hall Lottery, June, 1765, 

signed John Hancock. 
Two Post Office bills, one of July 11, 1745, signed 

B. Franklin, addressed to Boston, 
r.adge worn at New England Convention, Sept. 

20, 1840. bearing a portrait of William H. 

Harrison. 
Oaken Tree Nail, taken from the Frigate Con- 
stitution. 
Two interior views of Merchant's Exchange. 
Interior view of Doric Hall, State House, March 

15, 1S74. Body of Cliarles Sumner, lying in 

state. 
Wendell Phillips, Stuart, Eug. 
Daniel Webster, after Daug. by Whipple. Rit- 
chie, Eng. 
Dr. Putman's Church, Roxbury. 
Map of Boston, comprising part of Charlestown 

and Cambridgeport. Alade and Published 

Annin d- Smith, 1S26. 
An excrescence, or odd shaped knot, shaped 

like a nest, from one of the Paddock Elms. 
"Statement of the expenses of the Town of Bos- 
ton, from May, 17S3 to May, 17S4, $71,491 

Amount of County and Town tax, $125,820." 

Benj. Sumner, Col. 
The arrival of the Boston Stage at Framingham 

Common. C. C Kurtz, Lith. 



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DONOR. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Macdonald, Edward, 
Siipt. of Copp's Hill 
Burial ground. 



Manning, Francis H. 
Morse, L. Foster. 
Oxnard, Mrs. George 

Dearborn. 
Peabody, Mrs. M. R. 



Porter, Rev. E. G. 



Prince, John T. 
Soule, Chas. C. 
Staples, Caroline S. 



Taylor, Wm. H. 

Temple, Thomas F. 
Thwing, Walter Eliot. 

Waters, H. F. 
Watkins, W. K. 
Weld, Moses W.,M.D. 



Photo. 



Steel Eng. 
Photo. 

Lith. 



Water color 



Photo. 



Col. draught 



Eng. 



Photo. 



Oldest tombstone on Copps Hill. Inscriptions : 
David, son of David Copp, and Obedience his 
wife, aged 2 — , Weeks djed Dec. 22, 1661. 
Thomas. Son of David Copp, and Obedience 
his wife, aged 2 — . years and 3 quarters. Dyed 
July J" 25, 167S. 

Tomb of Samuel Winslow with his arms, and 
tombstone of Wm. Clark. 

Crystal Palace, Lincoln Street. 

Winthrop House, Boston. I£. Ta/>/>an. 

Two views of interior of Brattle Square Church. 

Rev. Jotham Sewall. After Badger by Morse. 
John M. Mason. After Jarvis by Durant. 
Edw. Stiles Ely. Durafit, Brezvster, Phil. 
Communion cloth of old Saxon linen given to 

the New North Church, by Dea. Kettell, 

1S12. Given to the Rev. E. G. Porter, by 

the Misses Lash. 
Whig ticket of 1840. 
Old State House about 1840. 
Leathern Fire Bucket "Isaac Stables, Aenas 

Fire Society, 1819." 

Another marked James N. Staples, Columbian 
No. I, 1823. 

Fire Bucket, John C. Jones. "Mr. Jones, in 
1788, lived at 47 Hanover Street, where Rev. 
Lyman Beecher's church was built later. Mr. 
Jones died Oct. 25, 1S29. 

Death warrant of Bridget Bishop, June 10, 1692, 
with the receipt for her person, by Geoi-ge 
Corben, Sheriff. 

Two views of interior of room in house of Sted- 
man Williams, Walnut Ave., opp. Glen road, 
Roxbury ; showing the antique paper on the 
walls, landscapes, pictures, etc., supposed to 
have been put on about 1780. House recently 
torn down. 

Boston Harbor, by Capt. Cyprian Southake; 
made by Aug. Fitzpatrick, 1^694. Copied from 
original in British Museum by y. A. Burt. 

Bill of Pomroy & Simpson, Ann Street, show- 
ing view of old Feather Store. 

Billhead of Nathaniel Thayer & Co., 1810. 

Old May house, on Washington Street, opp. 
Lucas Street. 

Col. T. C. Amory. 

T. C. Amory^ Jr. 

Oval portrait of Washington, after a cameo. 

Daniel Weld House, formerly cor. Union Park 
and Washington Streets. 



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DONOR. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Weld, Moses W.,M.D. 



Whieldon 



William W. 



Whitmore, Wm. H. 



Wheelwright, A. C 
Wise, Charles H. 



Photo. 

Eng. 
Steel En< 



Bronze. 



Photo. 



Charles F. Barnard, Minister-at-large at Warren 

St. Chapel. Born April 17, 1S08; died Nov. 

8, 1SS4. 
Dr. John C. Warren. Daug. by Whipple. Eng. 

J. W. Smith. 
Daniel Webster. After Staigg by Chaimcy and 

Godson. 
Dr. James Jackson, Born 1777; died 1S67. 

Wagstafii- Andrezvs. 
Map of Boston and the country adjacent. E. P. 

Dutton & Co., i860. 
Portrait of Rev. John Piedmont. Medallion 

framed in wood. 
Six badges worn bj different organizations at 

the Centennial celebration of Battle of Bunker 

Hill. 

Mrs. Murray, nee Judith Sargent, born March 5, 

1751 ; died June 6, 1S20. 
Winslow family. 

Oaken gavel, made from the frame of Brattle 
Square Church. 

Plan of Beacon Hill lot, 1819. 

Bill of fare given for the Boston City Govern- 
ment, at P'aneuil Hall, July 4, i"S57, J- B. 
Smith, Caterer. 



LOAN COLLECTION, 1885. 



DESCRIPIION. 



Allan, George H. 



Appleton, Capt.Nath'n 



Bacon, Mrs. F E., 
Mattapoisett. 

Billings, Mrs. C. 

Boston. City of 

By Hon. H. O'Brien, Mayor. 

Boston, City ot 
By A. H. Vinal, Architect. 

Boston Veteran Fire- 
men's Association 
By \V. C. Lawrence, Tieas. 

Callender, Miss Nellie 
B. 

Damrell, Capt.John S. 
Dearborn, Miss May 

DeCarteret, Thos. C. 
Dennet, Wm. H. 
Green, W. J. 



Eng. 



OilPaint'g 
Oil Paint'g 



Drawing. 



Oil Paint'g 

Photo. 
Wood Cut. 



Commission of Gen. Henry Dearborn, Feb. 25, 
178S; signed John Hancock. 

Commission, signed by Maj. Gen. Joseph War- 
ren, and issued to Capt. Jeremiah Russell. 

Medal awarded at Foreign Exhibition, Boston, 
1883. 

Medal, commemorative of the looth anniver- 
sary of the Treat}' of Peace between Great 
Britain and U. S. of America, Paris, Sept. 3, 
1783- 

Floor of the House of Representatives at Wash- 
ington, 1S32, showing the seat of Nathan 
Appleton. 

National Republican Ticket, with the name of 
N. Appleton for member of Congress, 1828. 

Certificate of membership of N. Appleton in 
Am. Colonization Society, 1S16, signed H. 
Clay. 

Nathan Appleton, born 1779; '^^^^ 1S61. By G. 
P. A. Healy. 

Hancock House, erected 1737, taken down 1863. 
Built by Thomas. Hancock. 

Pepperell metnorial ring, engraved A. Pepperell, 
Esq., obt. March, 1750.^. 26. 

Shovel, which removed the first earth in build- 
ing the Cochituate Aqueduct. Used by Hon. 
Josiah Qinncy, Jr., Mayor, Aug. 20, 1S46. 

Interior plan of the restoration of the Old State 
House, 1S30. Isaiah Rogers. 

''Fire Bucket, marked Oliver Downing, 1812. 
Friendly Fire Society." Oliver Doivning., 
Builder. Built one wing of the Tremont 
House. 

Cottage, made of the Old Elm on Boston Com- 
mon, 1856. T. Ha r a den. 

Fire Bucket, marked "Martin Brimmer, Boston 
Fire Club." 

Maj. Gen. Henry Dearborn, born 1751 ; died 
1S29. Painted at the age of 60 years. Gilbert 
Stuart. 

Boston Custom House, 1852. 

View of old corner book store. 

Liverpool Pitcher, purple decoration, with cop- 
per lustre on front. 
''United and steady in Liberty's cause, 
We'll ever defend our Country and Laws." 



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DESCRIPTION. 



Huntoon, D. T. V. 



Mezzotint. 



Israel, Mrs. Mary 
Sheafe. 



James, Mrs. Isabella 



Lathrop, Capt. John 



Lawrence, W. C. 
Parker, Edgar 



Russell, S. H. 



Photo. 



Porcelain. 



Earthen- 
ware. 
Porcelain. 



OilPaint'^ 
Drawing. 
Oil Paint'g 



Silver. 

OilPaint'g 
Steel Eng 



Four portraits, 

Lady Carteret. After Dagar-, by Simmons. 

H. R. H. Augusta, Pi-incess of Wales. C/ias. 
Phillips, ad vivum, 1737. 

Maria, Countess of Coventry, 1750; nee Miss 
Gunning. 

Anne, Princess of Orange. After Mercier, by 
jf. Faber. 1734. 

Spinning Wheel, for flax. 

A Proclamation or Broadside, signed by Gen- 
eral Gage, with seal, etc. 

Judge Wm. Cushing, born 1732; died iSio. 

Commission to Charles Cushing, Lieut. Col. in 
the County of Lincoln, Sept. i, 1762. Signed 
Francis Bernard. 

Mrs. Gov. Hancock. 

Hot water plate, purple and gold, with Arms, 

bought at sale of Col. J. T. Apthorp, about 

1835. 
Two blue plates, representing first hotel at 

Nahant. 

The Richard Gridley Punch Bowl, formerly be- 
belonging to him. Washington and Lafay- 
ette, when at the house of Mr. Gridley, were 
entertained by punch from this bowl. The 
bowl is richly decorated with Masonic em- 
blems, etc. 

Three certificates. 

Election, Degree of B. A. &c., Harvard Col- 
lege, to Rev. John Lathrop, formerly Pastor 
of Unitarian Church, Hanover Street. 

Rev. John Lathrop. 

No. 62 Ann St., 1812, present site of Oak Hall. 

Portrait of John Adams. After Stuart. By 
Rdar Parker. 

Fisher Ames, born 1758; died iSoS. After 
Smart. By Edgar Parker. 

A mug, with the arms of the Lynde family 
thereon, formerly owned by Hon.Benj. Lynde. 

Medal of the "Society of the Cincinnati." 

Nathaniel P. Russell, Treasurer Bunker Hill 
Monument Assoc'n : born 1799; died 1S48. 

Portrait of J. S. Copley R. A., born July 13, 
1737; died 1S15, at George Street, London. 
After G. Stuart, by W. Edwards, 1832. 



OFFICERS FOR 1886. 



President, 

CURTIS GUILD. 



Directors, 



Thomas C. Amory. 
William S. Appleton. 
Joshua P. Bodfish, 
Curtis Guild, 



John T. Hassam. 
Hamilton A. Hill, 
Samuel H. Russell, 
William Wilkins Warren. 



Clerk and Treasurer, 
W. Clarence Burrage. 



Committee on the Rooms. 
President AND Clerk, ex-officio. 

William S. Appleton, I George O. Carpenter, 

Richard Briggs, | Samuel M. Quincy. 

Samuel H. Russell, 



Committee on Papers. 



Hamilton A. Hill, 



I James F. Hunnewell, 



E. G. Porter. 



Committee on Membership. 

J. C. J. Brown, I Jacob A. Dresser. 

Thomas J. Allen, | Thomas Minns, 

William W. Warren. 



Committee 07t the Library. 

Martin Brimmer. I Dana Estes, 

Henry P. Curtis, | James L. Whitney, 

William C. Winslow. 
Wm. Clarence Burrage, Clerk ex-offlcio. 



LIFE MEMBERS. 



Ames, Oliver 
Appleton, Nathan 
Blake, Stanton 
Bodfish, Joshua P. 
Bradford, Martin L. 
Bradford, William B. 
Bradlee, J. Putnam 
Brooks, Peter Chardon 
Brooks, Shepherd 
Brown, John Coffin Jones 
Carpenter, George O. 
Chase, George B. 
Chase, Stephen 
Chase, Theodore 
Clay, Thomas H. 
Crowinshield, Benjamin W. 
Curtis, Henry Pelham 
Deblois, Stephen Grant 
Dupee, James A. 
Emery, Francis F. 
Estes, Dana 
Ferris, Mortimer C. 
Foster, John 
French, Frederick W. 
Green, Samuel Abbott 
Guild, Curtis 
Hall, Thomas B. 
Hassam, John T. 
Head, Charles 
Henshaw, Samuel 
Homans, Charles D. 
James, George Abbott 
Jenks, Henry F. 
Jones, D. Waj'land 
Ladd, Nathaniel W. 



Lambert, Thomas R. 
Minns, Thomas 
Moseley, Alexander 
Norcross, Grenville H. 
O'Brien, Hugh (Hon. Mem.) 
Parker, Charles W. 
Peabody, Charles B. 
Perry, Charles F. 
Pfaff, Jacob 
Richardson, B. Heber 
Ripley, George 
Russell, Samuel H. 
Sears. J. Montgomery 
Shaw, Henry Southworth 
Shaw, Henry Southworth, Jr. 
Slafter, Edmund F. 
Slater, Andrew C. 
Stetson, Amos W. 
Thacher, Henry C. 
Thorndike, George Qiiincy 
Turner, Alfred R. 
Turner, Job A. Jr. 
Upton, George B. 
Ward, Francis Jackson 
Weld, Otis Everett 
Wheelwright, Andrew C. 
*Whitmore, Charles O. 
Whitmore, Charles J. 
Whitney, Henry Austin 
Williams, Henry W. 
Winslow William C. 
Winthrop, Robert C. Jr. 
Winthrop, Robert Mason 
Woodman, Cyrus 



MEM BERS. 



Abbot, Edward A. 

Adams, Waldo 

Allen, Samuel P. 

Allen, Stillman B. 

Allen, Thomas J. 

Ames, Oakes Angier 

Ames, Samuel T. 

Amorj, Frederic 

Amory, Thomas C. 

Andrew, John F. 

Angell, Henry C. 
*Appleton, Thomas Gold 

Appleton, William 

Appleton, William Sumner 
*Apthorp, Robert East 

Austin, James W. 

Avery, Abraham 

Ayer, James B. 

Bailey, Joseph T. 

Baldwin, William H. 

Barbour, John N. 

Beal, James H. 

Beal, Leander 

Beard, Alanson W. 

Beebe, J. Arthur 

Bent, S. Arthur 

Bigelow, Abraham O. 
*Bigelow, Alanson 

Bigelow, George B. 

Billings, Robert C. 

Bishop, Robert R. 

Blakemore, John E. 

Blaney, Henry 

Bolles, Matthew 

Bouve, Thomas T. 

Bowditch, Charles P. 

Bradlee, Caleb D. 

Bradlee, John T. 

Braman, G T. W. 

Bremer, John L. 

Brewer, Cyrus 

Briggs, Richard 

Brimmer, Martin 



Brooks, Francis 

Brooks, Henry C. 

Brooks, Phillips 

Brown, Alfred S. 

Brown, Buckininister 

Brown, James Wentworth 

Brown, Samuel N. 

Browne, C. Allen 

Browne, T. Qiiincj' 

Buffum, Charles 

Bullens, George S. 

Burdett, Horatio S. 

Burgess, James M. 

Burnham, T. O. H. P. 

Burrage, Alvah A. 

Bush, J. Foster 

Butler, Sigourney 

Calef, Benjamin F. 

Candage, R. G. F. 

Candler, John W. 

Carpenter, Frank O. 

Carruth, Charles 

Carter, Charles M. 

Case, James B. 

Chamberlain, Mellen 

Chandler, Francis W. 

Chandler, Horace P. 
*Child, Dudley Richards 

Clapp, Channing 

Clapp, Otis 

Clark, Cyrus T. 
♦Clark, D. Oakes 

Clark, Joseph W. 

Clarke, Botsford R. 
*Clarke, Dorus 

Clarke, James Fieeman 

Clarke, Thomas W. 

Cliftbrd, Samuel W. 

Cliftord, Samuel W., Jr. 

Cochrane, Alexander 

Codman, William C. 

Codman, Odgen, Jr. 

Colburn, Jeremiah 



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*Collamore, Ebenezer 
Converse, Elisha S. 

Coolidge, Albert L. 

Coolidge, John T., Jr. 

Cordner, John 

Creech, Samuel W., Jr. 

Crocker, George G. 

Crocker, Uriel 

Crosby. C. A. W. 

Cruft, Samuel B. 
*Cushing, Samuel Thaxter 

Dalton, Charles H. 

Damrell, John S. 

Dana, George N. 

Danforth, Isaac W. 

Daniell, Moses, Grant 

Davis, James C. 

Deblois, George L. 

Dexter, Morton 
*Dexter, S. P.irkman 

Dexter, William S. 

Dickinson, M. F. Jr. 

Ditson, Oliver 
*Dix, John H. 

Dodge, Theodore A. 

Dresser, Jacob A. 

Dwight, Edmund 

Dyer, Benjamin F. 

Eaton, Walter D. 

Eddy, Otis 

Edes, Henry H. 

Edes, Robert T. 

Endicott, Geo. Munroe 

Endicott, W^illiam Jr. 

Eustis, W. Tracy 

Fabyan, George F. 

Fearing, Andrew C. Jr. 

Fitz, Eustis C. 

Flint, David B. 

Folsom, Albert A. 

Foote, Henry Wilder 

Forbes, J. Murray 

Forbes, Robert B. 

French, Benjamin 

French, J. D. Williams 

Frink, Alden 

Frost, Rufus S. 
♦Fuller, B. A. G. 

Fuller, Charles E. 



Galloupe, Charles W. 
Gardner, George A. 
*Gardner, John 
♦Gardner, John L. 
Gardner, John L. Jr. 

Gibbens, Joseph M. 

Gleason, Daniel A. 

Glidden, John M. 

Glidden, William T. 

Goddard, William 

Gookin, Charles B. 

Gorman, James Lane 

Gould, Benjamin Apthorp 

Gray, Joseph H. 

Green, George H. 

Greenough, Francis B. 

Greenough, William W. 

Grover, William O. 

Guild, George K. 

Hall, Edward R. 

Hall, John R. 

Hallowell, Richard P. 

Hamlen, Nathaniel P. 

Hammond, George W. 

Harris, Charles 

Hart, William T. 
*Hayes, Francis B. 

Haynes, Henry W. 

Hay ward, George 

Heard, J. Theodore 

Hecht, Jacob H. 

Hemenway, Alfred 

Henchman, Nathaniel H. 

Herford, Brooke 

Hersey, Alfred H. 

Hervey, Abraham F. 

Higginson, Waldo 

Hill, Clement Hugh 

Hill, Hamilton Andrews 

Hilton, William 

Hodgkins, William^E. 

Hogg, John 

Hoitt, Alfred D. 

Holman, Charles H. 

Homans, George'H. 
♦Hooper, Robert W. 

Horton, William H. 

Houghton, Henry O. 

Howe, George D. 



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Howes, Osborne Jr. 
*Hubbard, Aaron Dean 
Hubbard, Charles E. 
Hunnewell, H. H. 
Hunnewell, James F. 
Huntoon, Daniel T. V. 
Hurd, Charles E. 
Hutchings, William Vincent 
lasigi, Joseph A. 
Inches, Charles 
*Jaques, Francis 
Jelly. George F. 
Jenks, Thomas L. 
Jenney, Bernard 
Johnson, Charles E. 
Johnson, Edward C. 
Johnson, Samuel 
Jones, Leonard A. 
Kendall, Charles S. 
Kennard, Martin Parry 
Kennedy, George G. 
*Kidder, Henry P. 
Kurtz, Charles Carroll 
Ladd, Babson S. 
Lamb, George 
Lamb, Thomas 
Lathrop, John 
Lawrence, Abbott 
Lee, William H. 
*Lewis, John A. 
Lincoln, Frederic W. 
Lincoln, Solomon 
Little, Samuel 
Lockwood, Rhodes 
Lord, Hartley 
Loring, John A. 
Lothrop, Samuel K. 
Lothrop, Thornton K. 
Lovering, Joseph S. 
*Lowell, George G. 
Luce, Matthew 
Lyon, Henry 
Macdonald, Edward 
Mackay, Robert C. 
Macleod, William A. 
*Mair, Thomas 
Manning, Francis H. 
May, Frederic Goddard 
May, Frederic W. G. 



May, John Joseph 
May, Samuel 
Mayo, Edward R. 
Means, William G. 
Milliken, Ebenezer C. 
Mills, Henry F. 
Mills, William N, 
Minot, Francis 
Moore, Frederic H. 
Morse, Henry A. 
Morse, L. Foster 
Niles, Thomas 
Noble, John 
*Norcross, Otis 
Norton, C. B. 
Nowell, Thomas S. 
Osgood, Edward L. 
Paige, John C. 
Paine, Robert Treat Jr. 
Palfrey, Francis W. 
Palfrey, John C. 
Parker, Edgar 
*Parker, Harvey D. 
Parkman, Francis 
Parsons, Albert S. 
Patridge, Eugene E. 
Peabody, Henry W. 
*Penhallow, Pearce W. 
Perkins, Augustus T. 
Perkins, Charles C. 
Perkins, James D. 
Perkins, Thomas H. 
Perkins, William 
♦Phillips, John C. 
Phipps, Benjamin 
Pierce, George F. 
Pierce, Nathaniel W. 
Piper, William T. 
Porter, Alexander S. 
Porter, Edward G. 
Porter, John W. 
Prang, Louis 
Pratt, Edward Ellerton 
Pratt, John C 
Pratt, Laban 
*Preble, George Henry 
Preston, Jonathan 
Preston, William G. 
Putnam, George F. 



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Quincy, George Henry 
Quincy, Samuel M. 
Reed, Henry R. 
Reed, James 
Rice, Henry A. 
Richards, Henry C. 
Richardson, Augustus 
Richardson, Frederic L. 
Richardson, George C. 
Richardson. Thomas O. 
Richardson, Spencer W. 
Ritchie, John, Jr. 
Robbins, George W. 
Robinson, Nathan D. 
Roby, Warren Gould 
Rogers, Henry B. 
Rogers, John Kimball 
Ropes, John C. 
Rotch, William 
Russ, Augustus 
Rust, Nathaniel J. 
Rust, William A 
Salisbury, D. Waldo 
Sampson, Edwin H. 
Sargent, Geo. D. 
Sargent, Lucius M. 
Sawyer, Joseph 
Sawyer, Samuel E. 
Searle, George W. 
Sears, Kn_vvet W. 
Sears, Phillip H. 
Shattuck, George O. 
Shaw, Henry L. 
*Shaw, Lemuel 
Shillaber, William G. 
Slade, Lucius 
Sleeper, Jacob 
Slocum, William H. 
Smith, Charles C. 
Smith, Elbridge 
Snelling, George H. 
Snelling, Samuel G. 
Snow, S. T. 
Souther, Henry 
Sowdon, A. J. C. 
Spaulding, Mahlon D. 
Spencer, Aaron W. 
Sprague, Henry H. 
Standish, L. Miles 



Stanwood. James Rindge 

Stearns, Edward 

Stedman, George 

Stevens, Benjamin F. 

Stickney, J. Henry 

Stone, Charles W. 
*Storer, W. Brandt 

Strong, Edward A. 

Sullivan, Richard 

Swan, William W. 

Talbot, L Tisdale 

Talbot, William H. 

Temple, Thomas F. 
♦Temple, F. William 

Thayer, Edward F. 

Thorndike, S. Lothrop 

Thwing, Walter E. 

Torrey, Benjamin B. 
*Train, Charles R. 

Trask, William B. 

Tucker, George F. 

Tufts, Arthur W. 
*VanBenthuysen, George Christie 

Vinal, Hammond Whiting 

Vose, J. Thomas 
*Vose, Thomas Baker 

Wadsworth. Alexander F. 

Wales, George W. 
"'^Walker, Nathaniel 

Walley, Henshaw B. 
*Warren, G. Washington 

Warren, John Collins 

Warren, Joseph W. 

Warren, S. D. 

Warren, William Wilkins 

Weeks, Andrew G. 
*Weeks, James H. 

Welch, Charles A. 

Weld, Aaron Davis Jr. 

Weld, Moses W. 

Wells, Samuel 

Wendell, Mark Rogers 

Wentworth, Arioch 

Weston, Thomas Jr. 

Wheelwright, Edward 

Whieldon, William Wilder 

White, Charles T. 

White, J. Gardner 

Whitman, Henry 



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Whitmore, William H. 
Whitney, D. R. 
Whitney, Edward 
Whitney, James L. 
Whittemore, Henry 
Willard, Arthur W. 
Wiilard. Robert 
Willcutt, Levi L. 
Willcut, S. D. G. 
Williams, Alexander 



Williams, Jacob L. 
Winchester, Thomas B. 
Winslow, Erving 
Wolcott, J. Huntington 
*Wolcott, J. W. 
Wood, William B. 
Woodward, Arthur Stanley 
Wooley. William 
Worster, John 



* Deceased. 



BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 



ORGANIZED TO PROMOTE THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF BOSTON, 
AND THE PRESERVATION OF ITS ANTIQUITIES. 



BY-LAWS. 



OBJECTS. 

It shall be the duty of members, so far as it may be in their power, to carry 
out the objects of the Society, by collecting, by gift, loan, or purchase, books, 
manuscripts, and pictures, and by such other suitable means, as may, from time 
to time, seem expedient. 

II. 

MEMBERS. 

The members of the Bostonian Society shall be such persons, either resident 
or non-resident in Boston, as shall, after having been proposed and accepted as 
candidates at any regular monthly meeting by the Directors, be elected by the 
votes of a majority of the members present and voting. 

III. 

HONORARY AND CORRESPONDING MEMBERS. 

Honorary and Corresponding members shall be nominated by the Directors, 
and shall be elected by ballot by two-thirds of the members present and voting. 
They may take part in the meetings of the Society, but shall not be entitled to 
vote. 

IV. 

ADMISSION FEE AND ASSESSMENTS. 

Each member shall pay five dollars at the time of his admission, and five dol- 
lars each first of January afterwards, into the treasury of the Society for its 
general purposes; but if any member shall neglect to pay his admission fee, or 
annual assessment, for three months after the same is due, he shall be liable to 
forfeit his membership at any time when the Directors shall so order. 

The payment of the sum of twenty-five dollars in any one year by any member 
of the Society shall constitute him a life member of the Society; life members 
shall be free from assessments, and entitled to all the rights and privileges 
of annual members. The money received for such life memberships shall con- 
stitute a fund, of which not more than twenty per cent, together with the annual 
income, shall be spent in any one year. 



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V. 

CERTIFICATES. 

Certificates signed by the President and countersigned by the Treasurer, shall 
be issued to all persons who have become life members of the Society. 

VI. 

MEETINGS. 

The annual meeting of the Society shall be held on the second Tuesday in 
January, and regular meetings shall be held on the second Tuesday of every 
month, excepting July, August, and September, at such time and place as the 
Directors shall appoint. Special meetings shall be called by the Clerk, under 
the instruction of the Directors. 

At all meetings ten members shall be a quorum for business. AH Committees 
shall be nominated by the Chair, unless otherwise ordered. 

VII. 

OFFICERS. 

The officers of the Society shall be nine Directors, a President, a Clerk, and 
a Treasurer. The Directors, Clerk and Treasurer, shall be chosen by ballot at 
the Annual meeting in January, and shall hold office for one year, and until 
others are duly chosen and qualified in their stead. 

The President shall be chosen by the Board of Directors, from their number 
at their first meeting after election, or at any adjournment thereof 

The offices of Clerk and Treasurer may be held by the same person. 

VIII. 

VACANCIES. 

Any vacancy in the Board of Directors, or the office of Clerk or Treasurer, 
may be filled for the remainder of the term at any regular meeting of the 
Society, by the votes of two-thirds of the members present and voting. 

In the absence of the Clerk at any meeting of the Societv, a Clerk pro 
tempore shall be chosen. 

IX. 

NOMINATING COMMITTEE. 

At the monthly meeting in December, a Nominating Committee of three 
persons, shall be appointed, who shall report at the annual meeting a list of 
candidates for the places to be filled. 

X. 

PRESIDING OFFICER. 

The President, or in his absence, one of the Directors shall preside at all 
meetings of the Society. In the absence of all these officers, a President pro 
tempore shall be chosen. 

XI. 

DUTIES OF THE CLERK 

The Clerk shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of his duties. 
He shall notify all meetings of the Society. He shall keep an exact record 
of all the proceedings of the Society at its meetings. 



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He shall conduct the general correspondence of the Society, and place on file 
all letters received. 

He shall enter the names of members svstematicallv in books kept for the pur- 
pose, and issue certificates of life membership. 

The Clerk shall have such charge of all property in the possession of the 
Society as may from time to time be delegated to him by the Board of Directors. 

He shall acknowledge each loan or gift that may be made to and accepted in 
behalf of the Society. 

XII. 

DUTIES OF TREASURER. 

The Treasurer shall collect all monies due to the Society, and pay all bills 
against the Society, when approved by the Board of Directors. 

He shall keep a full account of receipts and expenditures in a book belonging 
to the Society, which shall always be open to the inspection of the Directors; 
and at the annual meeting in January, he shall make a written report of all his 
doings for the year preceding. 

The Treasurer shall give bond in the sum of one hundred dollars, with one 
surety, for the faithful discharge of his duties. 

XIII. 

DUTIES AND POWERS OF DIRECTORS. 

The Directors shall superintend and conduct the prudential and executive 
business of the Society ; shall authorize all expenditures of money ; fix all salaries; 
provide a common seal; receive and act upon all resignations and forfeitures of 
membership, and see that the By-Laws are duly complied with. 

The Directors shall have full power to comply with the terms of the lease of 
the rooms in the Old State House, made with the City of Boston, and to make 
all necessary rules and regulations required in the premises. 

They shall annually, in the month of April, make a careful comparison of the 
articles in the possession of the Society with the list to be returned to the City of 
Boston under the terms of the lease, and certify to its correctness. 

They shall make a report of their doings at the annual meeting of the Society 

The Directors may, from time to time, appoint such sub-committees as they 
deem expedient. 

In case of a vacancy in the office of Clerk or Treasurer, they shall have power 
to choose a Clerk or Treasurer /ro tempore till the next meeting of the Society. 

XIV. 

MEETINGS OF DIRECTORS. 

Regular meetings of the Directors shall be held on the day previous to the 
regular meetings of the Society, at an hour to be fixed by the President; 
special meetings of the Directors shall be held in such manner as they may 
appoint; and a majority shall constitute a quorum for business. 

XV. 

FINANCE COMMITTEE. 

The President shall annually, in the month of January, appoint two Directors, 
who, with the President, shall constitute the Committee on Finance, to examine 



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from time to time, the books and accounts of the Treasurer; to audit his 
accounts at the close of the jear, and to report upon the expediency of proposed 
expenditures of money. 

XVI. 

STANDING COMMITTEES. 

The President shall annuallj, in the month of January, appoint four standing 
committees, as follows : ■ — 

Committee on the Rooms. 

A committee of seven members, to be styled the Committee on the Rooms, of 
which the President and Clerk of the Society shall be members ex-officio., who 
shall have charge of all the arrangements of the Rooms, (except books, manu- 
scripts, and other objects appropriate to the Library,) offered as gifts or loans; 
the hanging of pictures, and the general arrangement of the Society's collec- 
tions in their department. 

Committee o?i Pafcrs. 

A committee of three members, to be styled the Committee on Papers, who 
shall have charge of the subject of papers to be read, or other exercises of a like 
nature, at the monthly meetings of the Society. 

Committee o?i Membership. 

A committee of five or more members, to be styled the Committee on 
Membership, whose duty it shall be to give information in relation to the 
purposes of the Society, and increase its membership. 

Committee on the Library. 

A committee of five members, to be styled the Committee on the Library-, 
who shall have charge of all the arrangements of the Library, including the 
acceptance or rejection of all books, manuscripts and other objects appropriate 
to the Library, offered as gifts or loans, and the general arrangement of the 
Society's collections in their department. 

These four committees shall perform the duties above set forth, under the 
general supervision of the Directors. 

Vacancies, which may occur in any of these Committees durmg their term 
of service shall be filled by the President. 

xvn. 

AMENDMENTS TO BY-LAWS. 

Amendments to the By-Laws may be made, at any annual meeting, by the vote 
of two-thirds of the members present and voting. They may also be made by 
the like vote at any regular meeting, provided notice of the same be contained 
in a call for such meeting issued by the Clerk, and sent to every member. 




PR0GEED1NGS 



BOSTONIAN SeeiETY 



(, . Annual Meeting, January 11, 1887, 



304, y...^ 




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PROCEEDINGS 



BOSTONIAN SOCIETY 



Annual Meeting, January n, 1887. 




BOSTON : 

old state house. 

Published by Order of the Society. 

M.DCCC.LXXXVII. 



CONTENTS 



I. President's Address, ..... 5 

II. Report of the Directors, . . . -14 

III. Report of the Nominating Committee, . ig 

IV. Report of the Treasurer, . . . .20 
V. Report of the Committee on Membership, . 21 

VI. Report of the Committee on the Rooms, . 21 

VII. Report of the Committee on the Library, 29 

VIII. Accessions to the Library Collection, . 30 



IX. Accessions to the Society's Collections, 

X. Loan Collection, ..... 

XI. Officers for 1887, 

XII. Roll of Membership, .... 

XIII. By-Laws, 



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45 
58 
59 
67 



PLATES. 

Portrait of Col. Marshall, faces Title. 

The Clark Arms, 27 

Pottery Exhibit, 48 



BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 



SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING. 



Boston, January ii, 1887. 

Pursuant to notice duly issued by the Clerk, the Sixth 
Annual Meeting of the Bostonian Society was held this day 
in the Council Chamber, Old State House, at 3 P. M., the 
President, Curtis Guild, in the chair. The records of the 
last meeting were read and approved. After the election 
of new members, the President addressed the Society as 
follows : — 

PRESIDENT GUILD'S ADDRESS. 

It is always pleasant to make a favorable report of any 
institution, to state that it is free from debt, in good condi- 
tion and in the enjoyment of the confidence of those imme- 
diately interested in its management and its work. Such 
really are the facts, fellow members, with regard to the 
Bostonian Society, on which I congratulate you at this annual 
meeting. 

This, it may be said without arrogating to ourselves too 
much, is owing to the fact that the Society has practically 
demonstrated the worth and usefulness of such an organi- 
zation in the city of Boston. It has endeavored to afford 
such advantages as it possessed, to all who desire to assist 
in promoting the objects for which it was formed. The 
freest access has been given to its historical collection and 
its library, both being thrown open to the public for enter- 
tainment and instruction, with only those necessary restraints 
adopted by all public institutions. The gradual growth and 
strengthening of public opinion in favor of the objects of the 
Society, — the promotion of the study of the history of Boston 



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and preservation of its antiquities, — is seen in the increased 
attendance at our regular monthly meetings the past year, in 
the number of valuable contributions and loans of memorials 
and relics relating to Boston's past history that have been 
contributed, and the largely increased number of visitors to 
these Memorial Halls from all parts of the United States as 
well i'.s from foreign countries. During the past year 10,636 
names were entered upon our visitors' register, an increase of 
nearly four thousand over the preceding year, and as fully 
one-half fail to register their names, it may safely be esti- 
mated that the number of visitors for 1886 was over twenty 
thousand. Of these, many were pupils or young people in 
charge of teachers or friends, who were gaining instruction 
respecting the mementoes before them, and the events in 
history with which they were connected. 

Our list of members, although not yet reaching the num- 
bers we should like to see, has never been so large as at 
present ; our historical collection has never been so complete 
and interesting, the monthly meetings never more fully 
attended, nor the public more inclined to look with favor 
upon our work than now. 

This state of things by no means indicates that our exer- 
tions should be relaxed in the least ; but simply that our past 
efforts have inspired some degree of public confidence which 
it must be our aim not only to hold, but to increase, and show 
ourselves in all respects worthy of the trust reposed in us. 

WORK. OF THE SOCIETY. 

In performing our work it may be borne in mind that while 
it is in one view purely local and devoted to this city of 
Boston, yet in its accomplishment it is of advantage to every 
citizen of the country. It is impossible to write the history 
of these United States, of the events that led to the founda- 
tion of our republic, — indeed I may go further, and say it is 
impossible to write a history of the first settlement of the 
country, without mentioning this city, or events in which its 
inhabitants were prominent actors. The great topographical 
changes that have taken place even within the past half cen- 
tury, the different methods of transacting business, — the 



entire disappearance, in fact, of certain recognized lines of 
trade, — should incite the descendants of many of those 
enterprising citizens who did so much in former days for the 
prosperity of Boston, to encourage efforts to preserve the acts 
of their honored ancestors from oblivion in the dim light of 
the past. 

The growing interest respecting the good city of Boston is 
not entirely confined to this locality ; it exists in far distant 
cities at the West and South among those who at an early day 
left the home of their youth, but from whose hearts the love 
and interest in it has never been extinguished. It exists 
among patriotic and intelligent Americans everywhere who 
look to this city now as they have in the past, for examples of 
pure patriotism, commercial enterprise, financial strength, 
honor, and literary and scientific culture. 

Again, as I have before remarked, and it will bear repeat- 
ing, Boston has now attained an age when she can claim to 
have antiquities that will be sought by historian, student, and 
sentimental sight-seer, and the organization that contributes 
to bring these more prominently before the public and render 
them of greater interest to the stranger, does a work the 
value of which is patent even to the most exacting utilitarian. 
Let us hope that our efforts may also result to advantage in 
an educational point of view, in affording schools and students 
correct information, by removing doubts, correcting historical 
errors, rendering the study of our city's history more attrac- 
tive, indicating the localities where great events occurred, and 
by preserving historical letters, papers, books and documents 
which otherwise might be destroyed. 

boston's history. 

If we take but a casual glance at our civic history, we find 
it replete with incidents that attract the student and render 
her pre-eminent among the cities on this continent. 

The first newspaper and first free school in America were 
established in Boston ; the first university was founded by 
our legislature ; the first blood of the Revolution flowed from 
the veins of her sons, and the first name upon the Declaration 
of Independence is that of one of her merchants. 



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While we desire that every step should be an advance, that 
no check should arrest the march of true progress, is it not 
the spirit of the age to sneer at anything belonging to the 
past, even the opinions of those whose age and experience 
amply qualify them for counsel if not for action, — and with 
that fiery enthusiam which belongs to youth, to forget even 
the respect that belongs to our elders in the feverish impa- 
tience to be released from all restraint ? 

History is being made to-day as it was an hundred years 
ago. Let us try not to leave for those who are to come a 
century hence, the entire duty of according to those about 
passing away, whether citizens, merchants or statesmen, the 
acknowledgment, respect and reverence that justly belong to 
good men and good deeds. 

This Society, while it addresses itself to the preservation of 
the antiquities of Boston and vvhat by many are regarded as 
sentimental memorials of its past record, by no means ignores 
the importance of its continual commercial advancement or 
the demands of trade, and certainly recognizes the study of 
the commerce and business of Boston as among the most 
important departments of its history. 

I may quote to-day what was expressed many years ago by 
a young poet of Boston as a sentiment worthy the considera- 
tion of those who are just starting on the road of commercial 
life: 

" Does our pathway e'er conduct to fame ? 
The merchant's honor is his spotless name ; 
Not circumscribed, just narrowed to the rank 
That passes current only at the bank, — 
But, stamped with soul, howe'er the winds may blow, 
Large as the sunlight, and unstained as snow ; 
Do good by stealth, be just, have faith in man ; 
The rest to heaven, God always in the van ; — 
Though silent deeds may find no tongue to bless 
Through the loud trumpet of the public press. 
Time-honored city ! be it ours to stand 
For thy broad portals, armed with traffic's wand ; 
To keep undimmed and dear thy dauntless name. 
That beams unclouded on the rolls of fame ; 
And foster honor, till the world shall say, 
Trade hath no wortliicr home than yon bright bay." 



HISTORIC LOCALITIES. 

Appropriate work for this Society which may be performed 
to the satisfaction of the whole community is not far to seek. 
Within a score of paces from this building occurred what is 
known as the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770, an event of 
which Daniel Webster said, " from that moment we may date 
the severance of the British Empire," — although the patriotic 
words which aroused to Independence were those uttered by 
James Otis in this very hall in 1761, when he delivered an 
eloquent speech against the arbitrary Writs of Assistance. 

The spot where the victims of the Boston Massacre fell 
has never, until within a few months past, been indicated by 
mark, monument, or sign. As a part of the duty of this 
Society, it was resolved that this historic spot should no 
longer remain a matter of uncertainty to those who attempted 
to find it without the aid of guide or antiquarian. In accord- 
ance with a resolve of the Society, the President waited upon 
the Committee on Streets of the City Government of Boston 
with the request that the spot, after being properly indicated 
by good authorities, should be marked so as to be easily 
found by those who might visit State Street for that purpose. 

The Society's wishes and suggestions were very kindly 
received and adopted by the Committee of the City Govern- 
ment, which caused a section of the street where the event 
took place to be made conspicuous by a peculiar arrangement 
of pavement, and attention was also called to the locality by a 
bronze tablet, prepared by the Society, bearing an inscription 
and affixed to one of the buildings opposite the spot. 

There are other historic points that might through the act 
of this Society be indicated in a similar manner: The old 
Bunch of Grapes Tavern for instance, around which are en- 
twined so many recollections connected with the early history 
of Boston. At this ancient house of entertainment Governor 
Burnett found comfortable quarters ; here Lafayette was 
entertained ; here the first meetings of the first Free Masons' 
Lodge in America were held, and under its roof George 
Washington was entertained, and the Society of the Cincin- 
nati held their early meetings. There is also the wharf that 



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was the scene of the Boston Tea Party, Dec. 16, 1773, and 
the spot where stood the ancient beacon of Boston, to alarm 
the country in case of invasion, replaced by the monument 
erected to the memory of those who fell at the battle of 
Bunker Hill, but which was taken down in 181 1. These and 
other historical sites are unmarked by anything by which 
they may be distinguished. 

Besides the monuments of the past or the places they occu- 
pied, there are authentic records of former days which claim 
our attention, and these are coming to us now so liberally 
that we need increased accommodation for our library. At 
present it is a comparatively small but at the same time an 
exceedingly valuable collection of books, pamphlets and docu- 
ments relating almost exclusively to the history of Boston. 
The contributions and additions that have been made to it 
already render it of great value as a collection of historic 
records. 

PERMANENT FUND RECOMMENDED. 

Depending, as the Society does, upon the receipts of mem- 
bership to meet its annual expenses, it is often restricted 
from improving opportunities of obtaining by purchase very 
desirable historical mementoes, by the lack of funds after pro- 
viding for the very moderate compensation which it pays 
those in its employ and its other necessary running expenses. 
It would tend to put the institution on a firmer foundation, 
and in a somewhat more independent position, if it had a 
fund, the interest of which would be sufficient to meet the 
expenses mentioned ; and I take the liberty of recommending 
to the incoming Board of Government the matter of raising a 
sum of money by subscription, to be securely invested, the 
income of which shall be devoted to advancing the interests 
of the Society in such manner as the donors shall decide. 

There certainly ought to be patriotic Bostonians v/hose 
family names are honorably connected with Boston's early 
history, and others who have in later days won honor, wealth 
and renown here, to respond with material aid to those who 
are putting forth earnest effort to preserve the memory of so 
much that is dear to them and those who are to come after 
them. 



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Let a fund be raised, the investment and management oi 
which might be entrusted to the subscribers ; and its income, 
even though small, coupled with the fact of its being financial 
capital, would give our Society increased strength and confi- 
dence. I trust it is not too much to hope that twenty-five 
subscribers of one thousand dollars each may be found, to 
make up an amount whose income would be devoted to the 
preservation of that which has made their ancestors' names 
fragrant in history, as well as of the monuments and recollec- 
tions that are pleasant memories in their own lives. 

A VISIT TO OLD BOSTON. 

During the summer it has been my privilege to visit Old 
Boston, of Lincolnshire, England, a town which probably sent 
more than any other in England of its best and worthiest cit- 
izens to colonize America, — Old Boston, where the spirit of 
Puritanism was kept alive and flourishing through the agency 
of John Cotton, during the period of whose ministry Win- 
throp and his company took their departure for the New 
World. Cotton himself followed the party a short time after- 
wards. Interesting to us modern Bostonians is this ancient 
town of Lincolnshire, thus associated with the Pilgrim Fathers 
who laid the foundations of this country, the mightiest of 
Republics. The American pilgrim of to-day visits with pecu- 
liar interest the church where his pious forefathers worshiped, 
and what few other localities there are, which are connected 
with their trials and sufferings. 

St. Botolph's Church, in Old Boston, where for twenty 
years John Cotton promulgated his religious teachings, was 
indeed in striking contrast with the humble building in which 
he afterwards officiated in our own New Boston. This church 
with its nave, north and south aisles, spacious chancel, beau- 
tiful south porch, chapel, its lofty groined arches, gothic win- 
dows and its magnificent tower, three hundred feet high — 
the loftiest in the kingdom — is an interesting building, apart 
from the historical associations which attract the visitor from 
New Boston. St. Botolph's is 245 feet long and 98 feet wide 
within the walls. There are three hundred and si.xty-five 
steps to the top of the tower, equalling the number of days in 



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the year; twelve great columns, the number of months ; fifty- 
two windows, the number of weeks ; seven doors, the days in 
the week ; twenty-four steps to the south porch library, the 
hours of the day ; and sixty steps to the chancel roof, minutes 
in the hour. 

A description of Old Bostoii has been read so recently by 
a talented member of the Society, at one of our meetings, 
that I fear I should be unable to present, at best, anything 
but a repetition of what has already been set before you. 
I may be pardoned, however, for alluding to the southwest 
chapel of St. Botolph's Church, which was restored as a 
memorial of John Cotton, mainly through the efforts of our 
distinguished fellow citizen, Edward Everett, who raised a 
subscription in this country, sufficient to cleanse, repair, and 
thoroughly restore the entire chapel, as well as to place a 
beautiful window, filled with stained glass, at the west end of 
it, and a memorial tablet upon the wall. 

TABLET IN ST. BOTOLPh's CHURCH. 

The following is a translation of the Latin inscription, com- 
posed by Mr. Everett, which is upon the tablet : — 

" In perpetual remembrance of John Cotton, who, during 
the reign of James and Charles, was for many years a grave, 
skillful, learned, and laborious Vicar of this Church. After- 
wards, on account of the lamentable troubles in religious 
matters in his own country, he sought a new settlement in a 
new world, and remained, even to the end of his life, a pastor 
and teacher of the greatest reputation and of the greatest 
authority in the first church of Boston in New England, 
which received its venerable name in honor of Cotton : ccxxv 
years having passed away since his migration, his descendants 
antl the American citizens of Boston were invited to this pious 
work by their English brethren, in order that the name of an 
illustrious man, the love and honor of both worlds, might 
not longei- be banished from that noble temple in which he 
diligently, learnedly, and sacredly, expounded the divine ora- 
cles for so many years ; and they have willingly and grate- 
fully caused this shrine to be restored, and this tablet to be 
erected, in the year of our recovered salvation 1855." 



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I venture to give, also, a list of the subscribers to the fund, 
as being names of typical Bostonians, and standing for men 
who have been foremost in adding to, and upholding, those 
attributes which make Boston honored among its peers : — 

Charles Francis Adams, William Turrell Andrews, Nathan 
Appleton, William Appleton, George Bancroft, Martin Brim- 
mer, Edward Brooks, Gorham Brooks, Sidney Brooks, Peter 
Chardon Brooks, John P. Gushing, Edward Everett, Nathaniel 
Langdon Frothingham, John Chipman Gray, Abbott Law- 
rence, John Amory Lowell, Jonathan Phillips, William Hick- 
ling Prescott, David Sears, Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff, 
Jared Sparks, John Eliot Thayer, Frederic Tudor, John Collins 
Warren. 

The citizens of Boston, England, to-day are proud of their 
namesake in this country, and, as your representative, I was 
most courteously received by the mayor, Mr. J. C. Simonds, 
and the ex-mayor, Mr. Wm. Bedford, to whom, it will be 
remembered, we are indebted for photographic views and 
other memorials of Old Boston. 

Both these gentlemen sent their best wishes to this Soci- 
ety, and heartily congratulated us upon the work in which we 
were engaged, expressing the liveliest interest in its progress, 
and hopes for its success. 

While it has been a pleasant task to congratulate you upon 
the flourishing state of our Society, it is mixed with sadness 
that we must record the deaths of some of our most valued 
members during the past year. Among them the names of 
Rev. Samuel K. Lothrop, James A. Dupee, Henry P. Kidder, 
Dr. C. D. Homans, Otis Clapp, Amos A. Lawrence, George C. 
Richardson, Charles C. Perkins, and D. T. V. Huntoon, for- 
merly Secretary of this Society, will recall to you those who 
were Bostonians distinguished in the positions they occupied. 

Many interesting details in reference to the Society's work, 
and its present condition, will be given in the annual reports 
that will to-day claim your attention. 

And now upon the threshold of another year, may the sym- 
pathy and encouragement we have received in the past, be an 
incentive for increased effort on our part for the future. 



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REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS. 

Mr. Hamilton A. Hill then presented the annual report of 
the Board of Directors as follows : 

In presenting their Annual Report, the Directors are happy 
to be able to congratulate the members of the Bostonian 
Society upon the completion of another prosperous year — 
the most prosperous year — in its history. Its membership 
has been enlarged, its meetings have been fully attended, the 
public interest in its proceedings and in its objects has 
increased, and the additions to its collections have been 
numerous and valuable. The Directors believe that it is 
taking its proper place, with every prospect of permanency, 
as one of the antiquarian and historical societies in the 
community, having its own well-defined sphere of investiga- 
tion and action, namely, the social, commercial and political 
life of Boston, from its foundation in 1630 to our own day, 
including the history of neighborhoods, streets and buildings, 
and especially when these serve to illustrate the complex life 
referred to. 

Papers have been read at every meeting during the year, 
except at the Annual Meeting in January, all of them bearing 
more or less directly upon our local history, and making 
inportant contributions to it, and yet sufficiently varied in 
their subjects to avoid any danger of monotony. The authors 
of the papers, and their subjects, have been as follows : 

February 9 : "Notes on the History of the Old State 
House," by George H. Moore, LL. D. 

March 9 : "Boston in 1710, Preparing for a Small War," 
by Mr. James M. Hubbard. 

April 13: "Changes in Values in Real Estate during the 
Past One Hundred Years," by Mr. Alexander S. Porter. 

May II : "Provincial Pictures by Brush and Pen," by Mr. 
Daniel Goodwin, Jun. 

June 8 : " North Bennet Street in the Olden Time," by the 
Rev. Edward G. Porter. 

October 12: "The Boston Fur Trade on the North-West 
Coast," by Mr, David Green Haskins, Jun. 



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November 9 : "A Recent Visit to Old Boston, Lincoln- 
shire," by Mr. James F. Hunnewell. 

December 14: "Notes on the Trade between Boston and 
China," by Captain Robert B. Forbes. 

Dr. Moore's instructive paper was the second with which 
he has favored the Society, on the history of the venerable 
building in which we are now assembled. It was printed in 
New York, and the Directors procured a sufficient number of 
copies to supply the members of the Society with them. Mr. 
William H. Whitmore, one of our associates, published a 
reply to some of Dr. Moore's statements, and this, also, has 
been circulated among the membership. Mr. Samuel Adams 
Drake has printed the interesting paper on " Old Boston 
Taverns," which he read before the Society a few years ago, 
and the address of Mr. Thomas Weston, Jun., on Chief Jus- 
tice Oliver, October, 1885, has appeared in the Historical and 
Genealogical Register. Mr. Daniel Goodwin, Jr., of Chicago, 
has brought out a handsome edition of his paper, "Provincial 
Portraits," and some of the other papers have been printed 
more or less fully. They are all worthy of preservation. 

A year ago, the hope was expressed that the Society would 
soon enter upon the work of regular and uniform publication, 
for the preservation of its transactions in permanent and 
available form, and to increase its general usefulness. The 
first number of what, it is believed, will prove to be an inter- 
esting and valuable series of papers, was issued near the close 
of the year, bearing the title, "Collections of the Bostonian 
Society, Vol. I, No. i, William Blaxton, read by Thomas 
Coffin Amory, November 9, 1880." This paper was read 
before the incorporation of the Society, and when it bore the 
name of the Boston Antiquarian Club. Other papers of 
interest are waiting their turn, and the Directors will print 
them as fast as the financial condition of the Society shall 
justify. To this end, it is very desirable that the membership 
be still further enlarged, and its funds increased. 

Diplomas of membership, which were voted at the last 
annual meeting, have been admirably executed by L. S. Ipsen, 
under the supervision of the Rev. J. P. Bodfish, one of the 



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Directors, and have been distributed to all members of record 
October i. 

The Rev. Edward G. Porter, of Lexington, has, on two 
occasions, addressed the Society on the history and topog- 
raphy of the North End. He has recently brought out a very 
handsome volume, entitled "Rambles in Old Boston, New 
England," illustrated by George R. Tolman, and has dedica- 
ted it to the Bostonian Society. This book will show, for all 
time, what architectural antiquities we had among us in the 
year 1886, and will preserve for coming generations, the 
traditions which connect them with the individual and social 
life of Boston. It will prove of great value as a history of 
that quaint and antiquated part of the city, which we call the 
North End ; while it contains much that is of interest relating 
to the Old State House, the Old South Meeting House, the 
Province House and King's Chapel. The Directors appre- 
ciate the honor which Mr. Porter has conferred upon the 
Society, by thus associating its name with the published 
result of his faithful and persevering and enthusiastic histor- 
ical studies. 

During the mayoralty of Dr. Samuel Abbott Green, the 
Municipal Government adopted the policy of marking impor- 
tant historical sites by memorial tablets. It is not always 
safe to leave the verification of such spots to tradition, or 
even to descriptions on the printed page. They should be 
designated in a manner that will leave no room for doubt in 
the future, and only a monument in some form will do this. 
The Society felt that the place ought to be thus marked, 
(almost under the shadow of this building), where the so- 
called Boston massacre occurred, March 5, 1770. This event 
was commemorated by the people of the town, by an annual 
oration, until the Eourth of July was made the day for pat- 
riotic celebration, when the observance of the earlier day 
ceased. A recommendation was made to the City Govern- 
ment, which iwas courteously received and promptly acted 
upon ; and under the direction of the Committee on Paving 
and the Superintendent of Streets, the stones in State Street, 
near the corner of Exchange Street, were laid, last summer, 
in the form of a wheel, to mark the precise spot where the 



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first blood in the Revolutionary struggle was shed. It was 
then suggested that the Society should erect a tablet near by, 
to explain the designation in the pavement ; and having 
obtained permission from the proprietors, it placed a bronze 
tablet, suitably inscribed, on the front walls of the Merchants 
Bank Building, in October last. 

In addition to the usual objects and obligations of historical 
societies, we bear the responsibility of the care of a most 
interesting historical building. If we had nothing else to 
show, and nothing else to do, — to keep these rooms open to 
the public, and to remind it continually of their historical 
significance, would be a most important and honorable trust. 
The extent to which the invitation to visit the building is 
responded to, illustrates the high estimate put upon it, and 
upon what it contains, both by our own citizens and strangers. 
The number of visitors who recorded their names in 1886, 
was nearly twice as large as that in 1884, and one-third larger 
than in 1885. The steady increase will be seen in the follow- 
ing figures : 

1884, 5,637 

1885, 6,732 

1886, 10,636 

The registered visitors in 1886 have been thus classified: 

From Boston, ...... 3,095 

From elsewhere in the United States, . 7,050 
From Foreign Countries, . . . . 491 



10,636 



It has been stated that 10,250 persons visited Faneuil Hall 
during the year 1886, about one thousand more than in 1885. 
If it be, as believed, that less than one half of those who visit 
these rooms enter their names upon our register, then, more 
than twice as many visitors came to the Old State House last 
year, as went to see the old Cradle of Liberty itself. 



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The Necrology of 1886 is as follows : 

Henry Purkitt Kidder, born in Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 8, 1823, 

died in New York, Jan. 28, 1886. 
John Gardner, born in Leominster, Mass., June 11, 1803, died 

in Boston, Feb. 2, 1886. 
Ezra Jackson Trull, born in Boston, Sept. 13, 1842, died in 

Boston, April 29, 1886. 
George Carter Richardson, born in Royalston, Mass., April 

27, 1808, died in Boston, May 20, 1886. 
Francis Parsons, born in Gloucester, Mass., May 20, 1843, 

died in Newton, Mass., May 20, 1886. 
Henry C. Brooks, born in Harwich, Mass., May, 1824, died in 

Boston, May 29, 1886. 
Samuel Kirkland Lothrop, born in Utica, N. Y., Oct. 13, 1804, 

died in Boston, June 12, 18S6. 
Henry Guild, born in Roxbury, Jan. 13. 1824, died in Roxbury 

(Boston), July 27, 1886. 
Amos Adams Lawrence, born in Boston, July 31, 18 14, died 

in Nahant, Aug. 22, 1886. 
Charles Callahan Perkins, born in Boston, March i, 1823, died 

in Windsor, Vt., Aug. 24, 1886. 
Charles Dudley Homans, born in Brookfield, Mass., Dec. 6, 

1826, died in Mount Desert, Me., Sept. i, 1886. 
Otis Clapp, born in Westhampton, Mass., March 2, 1806, died 

in Brookline, Sept. 18, 1886. 
James Alexander Dupee, born in Boston, June 22, 18 19, died 

in Lowell, Mass., Oct. 18, 1886. 
Daniel Thomas Vose Huntoon, born in Canton, Mass., Sept. 

4, 1842, died in Canton, Dec. 15, 1886. 
George Ouincy Thorndike, born in Boston, Feb. 24, 1827, 

died in Boston, Dec. 27, 1886. 

Mr. Huntoon, whose death is mentioned in the above list, 
resigned his office as Clerk and Treasurer, on account of illness, 
at the last Annual Meeting. The vacancy was filled at the 
monthly meeting in February, by the election of Mr. William 
Clarence Burrage, the present efficient Clerk, who entered 
upon his duties March i. While the office was vacant, its 



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duties were kindly undertaken, at the request of the Directors, 
by one of their number, Mr. Bodfish, who rendered a very 
important service to the Society, at a critical time. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Curtis Guild, 
Thomas J. Allen, 
Thomas C. Amory, 
Joshua P. Bodfish, 
John T. Hassam, 
Hamilton A. Hill, 
John Lathrop, 
Samuel H. Russell, 
William Wilkins Warren. 

Boston, January lo, 1887. 



REPORT OF THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE. 

Mr. Wm. E. Hodgkins then presented the report of the 
Committee on Nominations : — 

The committee appointed to nominate officers of the Bos- 
tonian Society for the year 1887, respectfully submit the 
following names : — 

For Clerk and Treasurer. 
William Clarence Burrage. 



For Directors. 



Curtis Guild, 
John T. Hassam. 
Samuel H. Russell. 
Hamilton A. Hill. 



Thomas C. Amory. 
Joshua P. Bodfish. 
Wm. Wilkins Warren. 
Thomas J. Allen. 



John Lathrop. 

A ballot was then taken, and the foregoing list of candidates 
was declared unanimously elected. 



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The Treasurer then presented his annual report as follows : 



TREASURER'S REPORT. 



Receipts. 



Cash on hand, January i, 1886 
Annual Assessments, December 31 
Life Members .... 
Interest on Deposits 
Publications . . . . 

Frames, insurance, etc. 



$1,992 23 

2,680 GO 

I.I 10 00 
55 08 

29 75 

30 '5 

$5,897 21 



Expenditures. 



Rent, City of Boston 






$100 00 




Deposited Life iMembership Fund 






2,174 60 




General Expenses .... 






752 05 




Salaries 






889 19 




Committee on Rooms, Purchases 






440 63 




*' " Library, books and binding 




324 91 




Publications 






814 44 




Diplomas ...... 






322 54 




Balance, Cash 


$57 


S7 




$5,818 36 


In Bank ..... 


20 


98 




78 85 



Total Balances. 



$5,897 21 



Life Fund 
Current account 



^2,174 60 - 

78 85 $2,253 45 



Wm. Clarence Burrage. Treasurer. 



Boston, January i, 1887. 



The undersigned, a committee appointed to examine the accounts of the 
Treasurer of the Bostonian Society, recorded in the cash book of the 
corporation for the year ending December 31, 1886, hereby certify that said 
accounts are correctly kept, and properly vouched. 



Samuel H. Russell, 
Thomas J. Allen, 



Committee. 



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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON MEMBERSHIP. 

The Committee on Membership have the pleasure of re- 
porting that during the past year the number of life members 
has increased from 69 to 107, and the annual members from 
399 to 566 — a total increase of 205. Removals and death 
have diminished the list of membership, as will appear in the 
annexed list. The record of members shows the names of 
Boston men, not associated for personal pleasure, but for the 
patriotic motive of securing historic mementoes of Boston, 
which they hope will bring to the minds of the youthful 
Bostonians through all coming ages, the history of its past in 
men and their surroundings, marking the progress of their 
home city by the pictures of its varying architecture, as well 
as by the obselete domestic utensils of the past. 

J. C. J. Brown, 

For the Coviniittee. 

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE ROOMS. 

In the past year we have had the honor to report that 
continued and increasing interest has been shown toward 
the Society on the part of the public, and this interest has 
been manifested by a great number of valuable gifts and 
loans, which have been enumerated and described at length 
by the Clerk of the Committee in the paper appended to this 
Report. 

Early in the year we were deprived, by their resignations, 
of the services of Mr. William H. Whitmore, who had been 
the Chairman of this Committee from the commencement of 
the Society, and of Mr. James Rindge Stanwood, who had 
acted as Clerk to the Committee during the same period. In 
May last, Mr. William S. Appleton withdrew from the Com- 
mittee, intending to be absent from the United States for an 
indefinite period. 

The vacancies caused by these resignations were filled by 
the appointment of Mr. Richard Briggs, Mr. George O. 
Carpenter, and Mr. John Lathrop. 



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The Cabinets have been carefully arranged from time to 
time, and everythinij; in charge of the Committee kept in 
admirable order by our efficient Clerk, Mr. Burrage. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Samuel H. Russell, 

Ciiainiian. 

REPORT OF THE CLERK OF THE COMMFFTEE ON ROOMS. 

It is impossible to refer to each donor amidst so much of 
interest ; in the descri[)tive list annexed to this report every 
article accepted by the Committee is duly acknowledged in 
detail. 

OIL . AIXTIX'JS AND W.VTEU COLORS MINL\TURES, SKETCHES 

AND DRAWINGS. 

The Society has been particularly fortunate in this depart- 
ment, as many early pictures of great value have been donated 
and loaned, their careful preservation being secured. 

Of these, the large portrait of Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis, 
painted in Paris by G. P. A. Healy in 1876, forms an admired 
object in these halls. Through Hon. Frederick O. Prince, on 
the divison of the Otis estate, this picture was presented by 
Harrison Gray Otis, one of the heirs ; as a suitable companion 
picture, Hon. Frederic W. Lincoln, on behalf of the Massa- 
chusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, loans the portrait 
of Harrison Gray Otis, mayor of the city, in this building in 
1830. It is the v.'ork of Chester Harding, and said to be a 
good likeness. M. Armin Muller also deposits with us a 
crayon drawing of Mr. Otis, taken a few years before his 
death, signed Edinunde Savimer Dubouijal, 1S45. We may 
also mention from this estate the miniatures on ivory of 
Robert Oilman, and of Joseph Henderson, high sheriff, the 
latter signed by Jules Amblard, 1793 ; in the Council Cham- 
ber is also an oil copy of this work, painted by E. T. Billings. 
A portrait in the early style of Bostonian costume, of Miss 
Anna Black, said in Perkins's list to be by Copley ; a spirited 



copy by Miss Jane Stuart, of " Washington at Dorclicster 
Heights," after Gilbert Stuart, and a portrait of Harrison 
Gray Otis, Jr., are also loaned. By vote of the Massachusetts 
Charitable Mechanic Asssociation, mentioned above, we are 
favored by the deposit in these halls of the faithful and 
beautiful picture of Paul Ixevere, the first president of that 
association ; it is from Stuart's painting in the possession 
of the family, by Miss Jane Stuart. 

We are also indebted to the same source for the speaking 
likenesses of Major Ben. Russell and Samuel T. Armstrong, 
copied from Harding. David Francis of New York presents 
a portrait, in the style of Harding, of David Francis, formerly 
of Munroe & Francis, Boston booksellers, 1812. Mr. Francis 
was commander of the Rifle Rangers, and vice president of 
the M. C. M. A. in 1827. 

Some of the most important of the early American paint- 
ings are the works of Smibert, Blackburn and Badger, loaned 
by Thomas Pitts, of Detroit. They represent James Pitts, 
the councillor, and his wife, in costume of the period, dated 
and signed James Blackburn, 1757; a portrait of Susannah 
Lindall, by Smibert, 1728, and a portrait of James Bowdoin, 
by Badger, 1747. Mr. Daniel Goodwin, Jr., who told us so 
interestingly of these portraits, loaned a variety of copies of 
other members of the Pitts family, by Copley and Stuart, 
including a crayon portrait by Wright, of Samuel Pitts, of the 
class of 1830, H. U. Mr. William H. Whitmore gave the 
Society a portrait of General B. F. Butler, painted about 1850. 

W. H. Spiller painted in water-colors and presented us with 
a faithful representation of the " Old Salt House," before its 
demolition. 

William S. Appleton kindly placed here one of the most 
interesting of the works of John Singleton Copley, as he signs 
in full this painting, with the date 1756 ; it represents General 
William Brattle, and was painted when Copley was but 
eighteen years of age. General J. F. B. Marshall, of Weston, 
loans a picture by the same artist, painted in his prime, of 
Colonel Thomas Marshall, com.mander of the "Boston Regi- 
ment," one of the selectmen of Boston, and officer-in-chief at 
Castle Island, before the Revolution. 



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We were fortunate, as a pendant to this, to obtain at the 
same time the picture, also by Copley, of Lucy Allen, wife of 
Colonel Thomas Marshall. It was generously sent us by 
Hon. John L. Hayes, of Cambridge. Amongst the captains 
in the Boston Regiment, Christopher Marshall commanded 
a company, and his pleasant features, and those of his wife, 
beam upon us from their quaint old frames, — the captain in 
the uniform of the Tenth Massachusetts. 

MODEL OF BRATTLE-SQUARE CHURCH. 

This miniature edifice, loaned by the courtesy of the Mas- 
sachusetts Historical Society, is all that remains to remind us 
of that historical building. It is exactly represented in every 
detail, — organ, pews, pulpit, etc. Many persons have called 
especially to sec this relic. 

ENGRAVINGS AND LITHOGRAPHS. 

Peter Pelham should hold the first place, Boston's first 
mezzotint engraver, and the first in the Colonies. He en- 
graved the beautiful portrait of the Rev. Cotton Mather, the 
year before that early author and preacher died, 1727. The 
Committee were enabled to purchase this rare print, and also 
the portraits of Rev. Thomas Prince and Rev. John Moore- 
head by the same hand. Of other mezzotints, the one of 
Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, after the picture in the Massachusetts 
Historical Society, is a pleasing work. It is loaned by Dr. 
Charles E. Clark. 

The collection of " Washingtoniana," deposited here by 
Harrison Gray Otis, formerly graced the mansion of Madam 
Otis. It represents several of our best engravers in some of 
their most known works, and reference must again be made 
to detailed list. The steel engravings of the portraits of the 
ministers of the Second Church, given by Mrs. Frances A. 
Minns, are fine impressions, as is also the portrait by Sartain 
of Rev. Daniel Sharp, given by Mr. VVhitmore. Amongst 
other engravings of Boston pastors we mention here, as 
purchased by your Committee, portraits of Bishop Cheverus, 
the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Boston, Rev. Baron Stow, 
Rev. Lyman Beecher, Rev. J. S. J. Gardner, Rev. Jonathan 



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Mayhew, Rev. John Clark and others. The lithograph por- 
trait of William Abrams, — one of the old-time merchants of 
Middle street, — is interesting. He lived to a great age, and 
brought up a numerous family. 

We have also been enabled to increase this department by 
handiworks of B. W. Thayer & Co., A. W. Smith, Pendleton's 
Lithography, Bufford, Prang, and others ; and in the early 
wood and copper cuts we have added works of Anderson, 
Bowen, Nathaniel Dearborn, J. Turner, and Nathaniel Hurd, 
Mr. Holden loaning us a colored plate by the latter of " Dr. 
Hudson, the Forger, in the Stocks," 1763. 

EARLY COLONIAL WARES. 

Barry, in his " History of Massachusetts," refers to the 
growing difficulty of saving the early and delicate earthen 
table-wares of our ancestors, and how collections should be 
made to preserve their beauty and history. The most enter- 
taining and popular exhibition ever held in the rooms of the 
Society was the collection of upwards of one hundred old Pro- 
vincial pitchers, gathered together for the summer months in 
the Representatives' Hall. It is the largest display of the 
kind ever made in America ; as much as could be, the his- 
tory of each piece was obtained, for which you are referred to 
the annexed list. The Committee wish to earnestly express 
their thanks to the many who have contributed to this unique 
display. 

JOHN HANCOCK AND THE HANCOCK HOUSE. 

There seems often a certain presence to emanate from the 
effects of those who leave this busy world before us, and in 
the rose-crimson surtout coat, long and stately, the gold- 
embroidered satin waistcoat and trunks, with the aid of the 
Copley photograph near them, we can see the courtly pres- 
ence of our first Governor under the constitution, John Han- 
cock. Mr. Franklin Hancock, of Haverhill, his grand-nephew, 
has kindly written us much of interest, and sent you all this 
costume, with other articles so full of interesting reminis- 
cences. Mr. William C. Otis has followed in depositing here 



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one of the most valuable historical works in existence — an 
embroidery in crewels of the Hancock house, built by Thomas 
Hancock, 1737; it was executed by Miss Otis, sister of the 
patriot James Otis, aunt of Harrison Gray Otis, soon after its 
erection, and shows the old beacon on the hill, the English 
powder-house on the Common, frog pond, etc. 

Of similar interest is an indenture,* signed by Thomas 
Hancock and his father, Rev. John Hancock, dated 1717. 
This early document is deposited by G. J. F. Bryant. 

AUTOGRATHS, BROADSIDES, NEWSPAPERS, ETC. 

Only a brief mention can be made of the letters of George 
Washington, Col. Benjamin Church, the Indian fighter, David 
Jeffreys, Town Treasurer, William Cooper, Town Clerk, 
Cotton Mather, ("To a minister of the Church of Christ," 



[COPY.] 

* This Indenture Witnesseth, That Tlionias Hancock Son of Jnlm Hancock of Lexington in the 
County of Middlesex in the Province of the Massacliusetts Bay, in New England, Clerk, of his own 
free and voluntary will, and with the Consent of his Father doth put himself Apprentice unto 
Samuel Gerrish of Boston in the County of Suffolk, in th.e Province afloresaid, and Sarah his Wife 
to Learn the Art or Trade of a Book-binder. After the manner of an Apprentice to dwell and Serve 
from the first day of July, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventeen, Until the first day of July 
which will be in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Twenty four, during all 
of which term of Seven Years the Said Apprentice his said Master and Mistress well and faithfully 
shall sei-ve, their Secrets keep, their Commands (LawfuU and honest) every where gladly do and 
perform, Hurt to his Said Master or Mistress he shall not do, nor of others see or know to be done, 
but he shall to his power Let, or hinder, or forthwith discover and give warning to his Said Master 
or Mistress of the Same. 

The Goods of his Said Master or Mistress he shall not lend unlawfully, nor waste. Fornication 
he shail not Committ, Matrimony he shall not Contract. Taverns or Alehouses he shall not frequent. 
At Cards, Dice, or any other unlawful Games he shall not play. From his Said Masters or Mis- 
tresses Service day or night he shall not unlawfully Absent himself ; but in all things as a faithfull 
Servant and Apprentice, Shall behave himself towards his Said Master and Mistress during the 
abovesaid Term. 

And the Said Master and Mistress in the Art wh.ich he now Useth, after the best Manner they 
may or can, shall teach, instruct, & inform or cause to be taught and informed the said Apprentice, 
finding for, and to him the said Apprentice, Meat, Drink, Washing and Lodging, as well in .Sickness 
as in health, during the said Term of Seven years. And to the performance of the Covenants, and 
Agreements above each of the said parties bindeth himself to the Other by these presents. 

In Witness whereof the Parties aforesaid, to these Indentures Interchangeably have set to their 
hands and Seals this Twentieth day of May, Anno Domini, 1717 In the fourth Year of his Maj'ties 
Reign. 

Signed Sealed & delivered Thomas Hancock & a seal 

in presence of 

Benjamin Gray John Hancock & a seal 

John Edwards Jun'r. 




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Boston, 1 7 14,) from Daniel Webster, and others. Bills of 
John Scollay, Peter Faneuil, Timothy Newell, Henry Howell 
Williams, of Noddle's Island, etc. The subscription agree- 
ment loaned by William S. Appleton, contains besides the 
autographs of John Hancock and Lafayette, more than two 
hundred well known Boston names. A volume could be 
filled, did space permit, with the interesting description of the 
various curious documents donated to the Society. 

It seems as if Bostonians should take more interest in these 
historical mementoes. 

THE CLARK-FRANKLAND HOUSE. 

Mr. Rowland Ellis, of Newton Centre, allowed the clerk to 
copy the original and famous inlaid centre-piece, owned by 
him, which, a century and a half ago, formed the chief orna- 
ment in the interior of the Clark-Frankland house, on Garden- 
Court Street. (See illustration.) This device, representing 
the "Arms of the Clark family," is an interesting example of 
the work of the old time decorators. 

In connection with this historical house — bought by the 
father of Mr. Ellis — the will containing the deed of it, to his 
" beloved wife. Lady Agnes," copied in England from the 
original of Sir Charles Henry Frankland, is of much interest.* 



* In the Will of Sir Charles Henry Frankland, " late of the City of Bath, in the County of 
Somerset, Deceased," bearing date the eleventh of November, 1765, and preserved in the Registry 
of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, England, among other things is the following : — 

I Give Devise and bequeath unto my Dear Wife Lady Agnes Frankland and her Heirs all that 
my Messuage or Tenement situated in or near the Town of Boston in the province of Massachusetts 
Bay in New England and also all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments thereunto belonging or 
therewith used and enjoyed Situated in or near the same Town of Boston and all my estate and 
Interest of in and to the same Estate and premises to have and to hold the said Messuage, Lands 
Tenements and Hereditaments above devised and every part thereof with the Appurts unto and to 
the use of my said Dear Wife Agnes-Frankland her Heirs and assigns forever — 

Proved at London with three Codicils on the Twenty Sixth day of Jany 176S before the 
Worshipful! Andrew Colter Ducaret Doctor of Laws and Surrygate by the Oath of Dame Agnes 
Frankland widow the Relict of the Deceased, and Sole Executrix to whom Admin — was Granted 
she having been first Sworn Duly to administer — 

signed George Goskins , _ 

Deputy 



James Tovvnlev 

V registers 
Matthew Gosking . 



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Mr. Ellis also loaned a deed, signed by Paul Revere,* and 
his wife Sarah, and a silver pitcher of large size, made by 
Revere himself ; also a contemporary subscription paper, to 
aid in the support of Rev. Wm. Welsteed, in the " New Brick 
Church," signed by Revere, Gov. Hutchinson, Thomas Lee, 
and many others. 

The collections of broadsides, commissions, proclamations, 
play-bills, portraits, programmes, tickets and badges, medals, 
-engraved billheads and circulars, have been greatly increased. 
Lack of space allows only a mere mention thereof, here. 
To Dr. J. S. H. Fogg, of South Boston, and Dr. C. E. Clark, 



* To all People unto whom thefe prefents (hall come, Paul Revere of Bofton in the County of 
Suffolk and Province of the MalTachufetts Bay in New England Goldfmith, Sends Greeting; 

Know Ye That I the faid Paul Revere for and in Confideration of the fum of Seventeen Pounds 
thirteen fhillings and four pence lawful money, to me in hand paid before the Enfealing hereof by 
Manaffeh Marfton of Bofton aforefaid Cooper ; the Receipt whereof I do hereby Acknowledge, 
Have Granted Bargained Sold Conveyed and Confirmed and by thefe prefents Do fully and abfo- 
lutely Grant Bargain Sell Convey and Confirm unto the laid Manaffeh Marfton, A Certain Piece or 
Parcel of Land lying and being near the New Brick Meeting houfe fo called at the Northerly part 
of Builon aforefaid butted & bounded Northwefterly on faid Marftons Land meafuring on this Hue 
from the Meeting houfe Wall to the Fence as the faid Land is now enclofed Twenty two feet, North- 
eafterly on faid Revere's Land there meafuring Thirty two feet, Southeafterly alfo on faid Revere's 
Land there meafuring Twenty two feet to the faid Meeting houfe Wall, and Southwefterly on the 
faid Meeting houfe Land there meafuring Thirty two feet Saving and Excepting out of the aforefaid 
meafures, all the Land that doth of nght belong to the faid Meeting houfe behind the fame, which 
is not to be Underilood as included in this Conveyance; With all the Rights Members and Appur- 
tenances to the faid granted premifes belonging or in any wife appertaining; To have and to hold 
the faid granted Premifes with the Appurtenances unto the faid Manaffeh Marfton his heirs and 
afTigns ; To his and their only proper Ufe benefit and behoof forever ; And 1 the faid Paul Revere 
for my Self my heirs Executors and Adminiftrators do hereby Covenant and Grant to and with the 
laid Manaffeh Marfton his heirs and Afligns in manner following; That is to fay. That at the time 
of Enfealing hereof I am the true and lawful Owner of faid granted Premifes, and ftand lawfully 
Seized and Poffefled of the fame in my own right as of a good Eftate of Inheritance in Fee Simple, 
having in my felf good right to Sell and Convey the fame in manner aforefaid, the Premifes being 
free and clear from all Incumbrances whatfoever; And Further That I the faid Paul Revere my 
heirs Executors and Adminiftrators fliall and will Warrant and Defend the faid granted Premifes 
with the Appurtenances unto the faid Manaffeh Marfton his heirs and Afligns forever, againft the 
lawful Claims and Demands of all Perfons whomfoever : In Witnefs whereof I the faid Paul 
Revere and Sarah my Wife, in teftimony that fhe releafes all her right of Dower in the Premifes, 
have hereunto fet our Hands and Seals the Sixth Day of June, Anno Domini One Thoufand Seven 
Hundred & Seventy one, In the Kieventh Year of His Majefty King George the Third's Reign 

Signed Sealed and PAUL REVERE 

Delivered in the 

prefence of Us SARAH REVERE. 

William Stoddard 

John Welfti 

Suffolk fs. Bofton June loth 1771. 

The aforenamed Paul Revere & Sarah his Wife Appeared and Acknowledged the afore written 
■Inftrument to be their free Act and Deed. 

Before me 

Wii,LXAM Stoddard 

Juft. Pacis. 



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we are indebted for many valuable documents, to gather which 
has been the occupation of years. 

The collection of newspapers, published in Boston, which 
Mr. W. W. Wheildon, of Concord, has industriously brought 
together, must not be overlooked. 

The Committee beg all to use their best endeavors to pro- 
cure for the halls any articles of historical interest to our city, 
and, in conclusion, would say that the list of accessions to 
this department reaches the total of four hundred and seventy- 
five ; and two hundred and twenty-five loans, a fact which 
speaks for itself. 

Wm. Clarence Burrage, 

Clerk of the Committee. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE 
LIBRARY. 

The Committee on the Library are able to report an in- 
creased interest in the collection of books and pamphlets 
which this Society is attempting to make. Several volumes 
recently received are rare, and many are interesting contri- 
butions to the history of Boston. 

During the past year two hundred and twenty-four volumes 
and two hundred and seventy-two pamphlets have been added 
to the library. Of these, eighty-six volumes and one hundred 
and fifty-seven pamphlets have been received by gift from 
eighty persons ; the others were purchased. 

The Committee urge upon members of the Society a still 
greater activity in furthering the effort to make a collection 
of books, pamphlets, prints and newspapers, which shall 
worthily represent the historical literature of this city. There 
are many books which can be obtained only by purchase. 
Contributions of money for this purpose are solicited. 

The list of accessions, with the names of donors, will be 
found on the following pages. 

James L. Whitney, 

Chairmaji. 



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ACCESSIONS TO THE LIBRARY COLLECTION, 

1886. 



Donors. 


VOLS. 


Pamph- 
lets. 


Hon. Thomas C. Amory ...... 


I 




William S. Appleton .... 








2 


I 


William H. Baldwin .... 








I 




Boston, City of. Alvah Peters, messenger 










16 


— Record Commissioners . 








I 




— Latin School Association 








I 




William B. Brindley .... 








I 




Buffalo Historical Society . 








I 


I 


William Clarence Barrage . 








I 


I 


Edwin L. Bynner .... 








I 




Cambridge : Committee of Arrangements 


for 


2 5otl- 








Celebration of the First Church 








I 




George 0. Carpenter .... 








3 




Horace P. Chandler . 










2 




Charles E. Clark, M. D. . 












I 


Jeremiah Colburn 










I 




J. G. Cupples 










3 




Isaac Newton Danforth, M. D. 










I 




Charles W. Darling . 












I 


James C. Davis . 










I 




Stephen Q-. Deblois 










2 




Mrs. Nancy Downer . 










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5 


Samuel Adams Drake 










I 




Mrs. Joseph L. Ellis . 












3 


Andrew C. Fearing, Jr. 










I 




Miss C. M. Fitch 










2 




Edw. Wells Foster, M. D. . 












I 


Georgia Historical Society . 












I 


Daniel Goodwin, Jr., Chicago 










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Thomas Pitts, Detroit 










I 




(Also for distribution 100 copies of Pro\ 


incial Pic- 






turcs, by Brush and Pen, by D. Goodwin, Jr., 






read before the Bostonian Society.) 






Franklin Hancock 










2 





35 



31 



Donors. 


Vols. 


Pamph- 
lets. 


Number brought fortvard, ..... 


35 


31 


Fred. F. Hassam 




3 


Prof. Henry W. Haynes ..... 


2 




Albert H. Hoyt 




I 


L. A. S. Hubbard, San Francisco .... 




I 


Daniel T. V, Huntoon 


3 




Kansas Historical Society 


I 




Miss S. B. Kidder 


I 




Abbott Lawrence 


I 




Hon. F. W. Lincoln 


I 


36 


Col. Daniel L. Lamson ...... 


2 






I 




Richard C. Lichtenstein 




I 


Liverpool Free Public Library 




I 


E. Macdonald 




I 




I 




John Joseph May 


I 




E. J. Maunder ........ 


I 




New England Historic Genealogical Society 




I 


New Jersey Historical Society 


2 


I 


Newport Historical Society 




I 


Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia . 




I 


Hon. Hugh O'Brien ....... 


2 






I 




Augustus T. Perkins 


I 








I 


John F. Pratt, M. D., Chelsea 




3 




I 




Mrs. Mary Lowell Putnam 




I 


Jacob Rhoades ........ 




I 


Rhode Island Historical Society .... 




2 


Mrs. A. C. Richmond, Taunton ..... 




2 


Samuel H. Russell 


7 


5 


Mrs. G. Shillaber 


I 




George F. Talbot ....... 


I 




Ticknor & Co. ........ 


2 




William H. Todd 




I 


University of California 




2 



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Nu7nber carried foi'ward, 
George B. Upton 
Hammond W. Vinal . 
Mrs. J. Mason Warren 
Lucius H. Warren 
William Wilkins Warren 
Mrs. Jane Lee Weisse, New York City 
Thomas Weston, Jr. . 
William W. Wheildon, Concord 
George H. Whitman . 
William H. Whitmore 
(Also, copies of the Old State House 

distribution to members.) 
Hon. Marshall P. Wilder 
Hon. Robert C. Winthrop 
Woburn Board of Trade 

By gift . 

By purchase . 

Total . 



Defended, for 



Vols. 

68 
I 
I 
I 
I 
I 
I 
I 

3 
4 
I 



jPami'h- 

; LETS. 



86 

138 



97 



7 

51 



157 

"5 



224 272 



Mr. W. W. Warren made a motion which was amended by 
Rev. W. C. Winslow, — which amendment was accepted, — 
that the Directors be empowered to print the Proceedings at 
this Annual Meeting and such articles as they may see fit 
for the " Collections." 



Adjourned. 



Wm. Clarence Burrage, 

Clerk. 



ACCESSIONS 
TO THE SOCIETY'S COLLECTION, 1886. 



GIFTS AND PURCHASES. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Bailey, J. Appleton 
Bell, Theo. H. 

Betteley, Albert 

Black, J. W. 

Bostonian Society, by 
Committee on Rooms. 



Auto. 

Copp'r pl'te 
Stipple En. 



Engraved 

Photo. 
Earth' we. 



Porcelain. 



Map. 



Ticket. 



Letter of Daniel Webster to Hon. Peter Har- 
vey, dated Washington, Sept. 27, 1850. 

John Clarke, D.D., A.A.S., IV. Lovell, pinx.^ 
G. Glover, Eng. Born Portsmouth, N.H., 
Ap. 13, 1755. Died deUvering a benedic- 
tion in the First Church, Ap. ist, 1798. 

Certificate issued to the donor, certifying his 
contribution of five dollars to the Franklin 
statue. N. E. Bank N'otc Co., Etig. 

John Tileston, schoolmaster. After a Paint- 
ing by Grecnivood. 

Plate stamped in blue ; Landing of Lafayette 
in New York, Aug. 16, 1824. Clews, Staf- 
fordshire, Maker. 

Plate representing landing of the Pilgrims, 
Dec. 20, 1620. Made for the Bi-Centen- 
nial at Plymouth, 1820. Enoch Wood ^^ 
Sons, Bitrsleni. 

Liverpool Pitcher, stamped in red on cream 
ground, "To the crooked but interesting 
Town of Boston." On the reverse, portion 
of one of Moore's poems. Purchased of 
Mrs. Maria K. Emerson, Waltham.\ 

Liverpool Pitcher, with print representing 
" the Salem Ship Yards, i8oo.'" Similar 
in design to the Derby punch-bowl in 
possession of "E. I. Marine Soc," Salem. 

Two plates in colors. Birds, flowers, insects, 
etc. Said to have been from the loot of the 
Province House, 1776. Formerly belonged 
to Gov. Gage. 

Bartlett's map of Boston, 1871. 

Nath'l Dearborn's map of Boston, 1847, with 
his photograph attached. 

Prang's map of Boston, with list of hotels, 
streets, etc., 1871. 

Ticket to the Boston Assemblies, 1854-55. 



* The bold initials in the first column refer to corresponding letters in the heliotype illustration, 
t A duplicate of this, black on cream, was given by Richard Briggs. 



34 



Bostonian Society, by Ticket. 
Committee on Rooms. 



Steel Ens:. 



Cop. plate 



Mezzotint 
Engrav'g. 

Litho. 



Col. Litho. 

Photo. 
Broadside. 

Commis"n. 



Mezzotint 
Ent^rav's- 



Auto. 



DESCRIPTION. 

Invitation Ticket and Programme (with helio- 

type of the Fairbanks House), issued to 

W. C. Burrage, Clerk, on the occasion of 

the 250th Anniversary of the Foundation of 

Dedham Plantation, Sept. 21, 1886. 
Daniel Webster. Chester Harding, pinx., 

J. ^ludrews and H. IV. Smith, Eng. 
Same. T. B. Lawson, pinx., C. E. Jl'ag- 

stajf and Joseph Andrews, Eng. 
Edward Everett. T. Hicks, N. A., pitix., 

H. IVright Smith, Eng. 
Same. Erom a Photograpli by Root, Eng., 

by John .Sartain, Phi la. 
Gov. John Brooks, 1816-23. James Eroth- 

ingham, pinx., drawn by James Penni/nan, 

engraved by John Chorley. "Original in 

possession of Dudley Hall, Esq." 
Rev. Jona. Mayhew. By Cipriani, pupil of 

Bartolozzi. Pastor of tlie West Church. 

Died July 8, 1766. 
Baron Stow, pastor of the Second Baptist 

Church 35 years. P". Alexander, pinx., J. 

Sartai)!, Eng. 
Rev. J. S. J. Gardiner, Rector of Trinity 

Church, 1805-30, died in England, July 

29, 1830. Mary M. Maguire, Pith. 
Rev. Lyman Beecher, born Oct. 12, 1775, 

died Jan. 10, 1863. Pastor of Hanover St. 

Church, afterwards rebuilt on Bowdoin St., 

father of Henry Ward I'eecher. L. Graze- 

tier, del., S. JT. Chandler &^ Pro., Lith. 
Battle of the Const it id ion and Giierriere, Aug. 

19, 1812. 
Baldwin Place Home. 
The last words and dying speech of Levi 

Ames, executed for burglary, Oct. 21, 1773. 
Issued to Reuben French, Captain, June 19, 

1738. Signed, Jonathan Belcher. 
To John Hartwell, Ensign, Oct. 14, 1796. 

Signed. Samu"l Adams. 
To Asa Butterneld, Ensign, Dec. 27, 1786. 

Signed, James Bowdoin. 
Rev. Thomas Prince, of Old South Church. 

P. j\'lham, Jing., after J. Greenwood, 1750. 
Rev. John Moorhead, Pastor of the Church 

of the Strangers. P. Pelham, pinx. et fecit, 

1751. 
Letter of Cotton M:ither to Mr. Ellis Kallen- 

der. Elder of a Church of Christ, Boston, 

Jan. I, 1714. 



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Bostonian Society, by I Theatre 
Committee on Rooms. Bill 



Litho. 



Brown, Charles A. 
Bryant, G. J. F. 



Bugbee, James M. 



Burrage, W. Clarence iChro. lith. 



Cop. plate 
Engrav'a;. 



Butler, Rev. Eber R. 
Carleton, Wm. T. 



Ticket. 



Certificate. 



Molten 
Parian. 
Earthen- 
ware. 
Photo. 

Wood. 



Proclama- 
tions. 

Commis'ns 

Photo. 
Water col. 

Photo. 



j Newspaper 



DESCRIPTION. 



Of the Federal St. Theatre about 1795. Cast 
is given of the plays, " Stranger," and 
"Animal Magnetism." 

Bishop J. Chevems, first R. C. Bishop of 
Boston. Dickenson, del., A. C. Smith, 
Lith. 

Eight Thanksgiving and Fast Day Proclama- 
tions, by Governors Pownall, Hancock, 
Adams, and others. 

Six, signed by Edw. Everett, J. Brooks, Ca- 
leb Strong, Elbridge Gerry. 

Washington St. end of the Old State House. 

Horticultural Hall, built by Bryant & Oilman, 
1865. Marble figures by Martin Milmore. 

Three views, in frame, of the Beebe Block, 
Winthrop Sq., Cathedral building, and Re- 
vere Bank Building on Franklin St., taken 
before the fire of 1872. 

Hon. Frederic W. Lincoln, Mayor of Bos- 
ton, 1S5S to 1861 ; 1863 to 1S67. 

The so-called Arms of the Washington Fam- 
ily. 

Miniature Portrait of Benjamin Franklin, 
after Cochin. Catalogued in the Wiggin 
Sale as by Chodowiecki. 

The Mass. Gazette and Boston Weekly News 
Letter, Dec. 23. 1773. Account of a meet- 
ing at the Old South Church. " Thursday, 
Dec. 16, at one o'clock, just before the dis- 
solution of the meeting, a number of brave 
and resolute men dressed in the Indian 
manner approached the door of the Assem- 
bly and gave the war-whoop, which rang 
through the house." 

Ticket to Dinner at Faneuil Hall, issued to 
Ephraim French, June 3, 1822, by the An- 
cient and Honorable Art. Company. 

Certificate of Membership in same Company, 
Aug. 3, 1809, issued to Mr. French ; signed 
Benjamin Loring, Commander. Mr. French 
was grandfather of the donor. 

Relic of the Great Fire from the store of 
D. B. Stedman & Co. 

Lavender Tile from the house of James Barry, 
off Barry Court, Washington St. 

Charles liarnard, founder of Warren Street 
Chapel. 

Painting on a panel of a confkigration, said to 
be the burning of the old " Odeon," Federal 
Street. 



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DESCRIPTION. 



Carpenter, Geo. O. 



Chandler, H. P. 
Chaplin, Charles 



Child, Addison, Child- 
wold, N. Y. 



Clark, Chas. E. 



Photo. 



Manuscr. 



Cup. 



SnufF-box. 

Linen. 

Map. 

Electro. 



Stick. 



Auto. 



Second Eliot School, North Bennet St. 
Established 1713; erected 1838; cost 
$24,072. Average number of pupils, 366. 

Bird''s eye view of Boston, showing old Trinity 
Church and other buildings before the great 
fire. Taken from a balloon. King and 
Allen, Aeronauts; Black and Batchelder, 
Photo. 

Account of the first theatrical performance in 
America, Sept. 5, 1752, at Williamsburg, 
Va. The play was Garrick's " Lethe." 

Cocoanut Cup, with silver mounting, formerly 
belonging to Gov. John Hancock, and 
given to Mrs. Brackett, his housekeeper, 
by him. 

An enamelled Snuff-box, with painted figures, 
given to the same lady. 

A Linen Sheet, with letter " H " still visible. 

Boston, 1846, by N. Dearborn. 

Bass-reliefs on the Pilgrim Monument at 
Plymouth. Designed by Hawniat Billings. 

Washington Medal. Orii^i)ial engraved by 
Mitchell. 

Franklin Masonic Medal. F. Bernier, Eng. 

Birch Stick used by Charlotte Cushman at her 
last representation of "Meg Merrilies"at 
Globe Theatre, Boston. Charlotte Cush- 
man was born July 23, 1816, and died 
Boston, February 18, 1876. 

Letter to Capt. Thomas Leonard, of Taunton, 
August II, 1697. Signed Benjamin Church, 
Major. 

Letters of Hon. Wm. Appleton, J. Mason 
Wanen, Joshua Bates, T. H. Perkins, 
Abel Adams, Benjamin Bussey, Samuel 
Adams Drake, Daniel Allin (1683), Richard 
Wharton, Edward Proctor, one of the Tea 
Party (Oct. 30, 1774, receipt for a negro 
woman named Vine, £6 13s. 4d.), Spencer 
Phipps (1749), Joseph Henderson (High 
Sheriff), Washington Irving, Thomas 
Amory, Josiah Ouincy, Jr., Ebenezer Han- 
cock, Generals Ward and Heath, Edward 
Winslovv (Sheriff. 1740), Sam'l Lynde 
(1707), P;uil Dudley (1707). and many 
others. Also, a large variety of curious 
addresses, circulars, certificates, pro- 
grammes, bills of fare, bills of merchandise 
(many with engraved head pieces), tax 
warrants, apothecaries' circulars, lottery 
tickets, commissions, etc., etc. 



Zl 



DESCRIPTION. 



Clark. Chas. E. 



Clifford. Maj. .S. W. 



Colbuni, Jeremiah 



Cotter, James F. 



Court House, (Tlie) 
Commissioners by 
S. B. Stebbins, Ch'n. 

Crane, A. O. 



Cruft, Rev. Sam'l B. 
Curtis, Henrv Pelliam 



Heliotype. 



Litho. 



Printed 
Tax-bills. 
Manusc'pt. 



Warrant. 

Embossed 
Document. 



Letter. 
Photo. 

Satin. 
Shears. 

Ivory. 
Photo. 



Daniels, J. H., New^n. Photo- 
I Electro. 
Davenport, Charles, (Colored 

Ca?>ibridge. | Litho. 

Downer, Mrs. N. M. jsteel. 



Fac-simile of the subscription paper toward 
the building of the first Town-house, Bos- 
ton, 1656. Signed by John Endicott and 
others. 

Edward Kendall, bugler to the New England 
Guards. Took first prize at Covent Garden, 
London, 1846. 

Two Tax Blanks, issued to J. Kneeland, Jr., 
and John Bullard, for the year 1784. 

A written list from the Collector's office, show- 
ing list of taxes paid in by Paul Revere and 
others, said to have been found on the 
burning of the Court House, Queen Street. 

Tax warrant, July i, 1794, Thos. Davis, 
Treasurer and Receiver General. 

Original Letter of Thanks by the Irish Con- 
federation to Capt. Robt. B. Forbes of the 
Jatfiestozvn, the American Frigate sent 
from Boston with provisions for the starv- 
ing people of Ireland, April 18, 1847. 
Signed by the Committee. 

Another letter of similar tenor, signed April 
24, 1847, Staunton, Lord Mayor of Dublin. 

The corner house, 37 Summer St., formerly 
occupied by Daniel Webster, Uriah Cotting 
and others. 

Badge worn by the "Veterans" of the old 

"Sixth."' Baltimore, April 19, 1861. 
Pair of Tailor's Shears. Picked up amongst 

the ruins of Beebe's block after the great 

fire of 1872. 
Miniature of Rev. J. .S. Buckminster, Pastor 

of Brattle Sq. Church, 1805-12. 
Harry Pelham, half-brother of Copley. After 

the Painting by Copley. 
Charles Pelham, step-brother of Copley. 

After Painting by Copley. Original is in 

possession of C. P. Curtis. 
Thirty-six ancient Boston buildings. (See 

General Catalogue of gifts and loans.) 
N. B. Shurtleff, Mayor of Boston, 1868. 
North Battery. After Paul Revere'' s Pin- 
graving. 
" New Boston and the Charles River Basin." 

7. H. Bufford, Lit It. 

Set of Surgical Instruments used by Dr. Eli- 
phalet Downer, who was one of tlie Lexing- 
ton Minute Men and served as Surgeon 
under Com. John Paul Jones on the " Bon- 
hontine Pic/iard."' 



DESCRIPTION. 



Ellis, Mrs., Walpole. 



Fenno, Isaac 



Fernald, Albert H. 



Fogg, Dr. J. S. H. 



Badge. 



Broadside. 



Musket, 

etc. 
Copper- 
plate Eng. 



Silhouettes 

Silk. 

Auto. 



<< << 



Francis, David G. 
Netu York. 



Bill. 



Parchment. 



Oil Paint'g 



Badge of the Harvard Porcellian Club, in- 
stituted 1791 ; formerly owned by George 
Morey, H. U., 181 1. 

Tax Warrant issued to Isaac Fenno, Consta- 
ble of Stoughton, Nov. r, 1759, signed 
Harrison Gray, Treas. and Receiver Gen'l. 

Musket, Belt and Cartridge Box, carried in 
the War of 18 12, by Wm. M. Fernald. 

Certificate of the Fire Department of the 
City of Boston, 1833. Signed Thomas C. 
Amory, Chief, issued to Wm. M. Fernald, 
with representation of the Old State House 
inflames, 1832. /ifier Salmon'' s pamtijig. 

Two silhouettes of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Mills, 
by King. 

Purse as used in 1800. 

Return of valuation of Noddle's Island, made 
by Henry Howell Williams, May, 1789. 
Personal Estate, ^149 6^-. Sc/. Real Estate, 
;i^26oo. " I pay interest for 460^^." 

Subscription Paper for raising mone}' to carry 
on the war, Dec. 9, 1777, signed John 
Irving, John Pitts, Jeremiah Allen and 
others, payable to David Jeffries, Town 
Treasurer. 

Bill of John Scollay for hard-ware sold to the 
Town of Boston, £\ 13 -zs. 6d. O.T. 

Bill of Samuel Kneeland, printer, May 26, 
1755. (Kneeland was printer to the Gov- 
ernor and publisher of the Boston Gazette, 
and died Dec. 14, 1769, aged y2>-) 

Order of the Selectmen for the establishment 
of Engine Co. No. 3, Dec. 1761. Signed 
William Cooper, Town Clerk. 

Proposal of Jno. Marion for the better pre- 
vention of desolation by fire, &c., July 26, 
1714. 

Bill of Sale of "4 pipes of Wine and 50 jarres 
of Oyle and nigro woman sold by Otto to 
ffordinando at Long Island for the account 
of Mr. John Usher, August 11, 1682.'" 

Printed Indenture with the Arms of the City 
of London thereon, whereby Robert Or- 
chard apprentices himself to Richard Hill, 
Felt Maker, London, June 23, 1655. En- 
dorsed by Edward Rawson, Sec, Aug. 6, 
1662. 

David Francis, Boston Bookseller, 1812; 
Trustee and Secretary of M. C. M. A., 
1814-26; Vice-Prest., 1827; Commander 
of the Rifle Rancers. 



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DESCRIPTION. 



Goodwin, Daniel, Jr. Letter. 

i 
Guild, Curtis Eng. 

Satin. 



Gunnison, E. N., 
East Walpole. 



Colored 
Copper- 
plate Eng. 



Hancock, Franklin, Court Suit. 
Haver] till, Mass. 



Bibles. 



Hassam, F. F. 



Holland, H. E. 
Homer, C. H. 



Wood. 



Brick. 



Bullet. 

Liiho. 



Howard Nat. Bank. jPhoto. 
Hunneman, J. H., Jr. tMetal. 



Letter from Benjamin Faneuil to his brother 
Andrew, dated New York, Aug. i8, 1708. 

Alexander H. Rice, Mayor of Boston, 1856. 
After pJioto. by Notvtan. 

East view of Faneuil Hall. 

Label with engraved representation of Tri- 
mountain, 1630, on a badge worn at the 
second Centennial celebration of the settle- 
ment of Boston, Sept. 17, 1830. Abel 
Boiueii, Engraver. " The glory of children 
are their fathers." 

Representation of Indians scalping American 
soldiers. Inscribed: "A scene on the 
frontiers as practiced by the humane British 
and their worthy allies." At the right an 
English officer in full uniform. The 
Indian hands him a scalp witli his left 
hand ; in his right is a scalping knife 
marked G. R., and hanging from his 
musket a placard marked, "Reward for 
scalps, 1 6-." The officer says, "Bring 
me the scalps, and the King our master 
will reward you." 

Crimson velvet body-coat, blue satin waist- 
coat embroidered with gold, and drab silk 
trunks, formerly owned and worn by Gov. 
John Hancock. 

Two folio Bibles, (Oxford, 172 1, Edinburg, 
1722,) one used by Rev. John Hancock of 
Braintree, father of the Governor: the 
other used by his grandfather, the Rev. 
John Hancock of Lexington, containing the 
autographs of the Governor. {The Library 
Catalogue will contain a full description of 
the above. ^ 

A Board from the Mather School-house. Dor- 
chester. " The first free school established 
by tax of the people." 

An English Brick from the Curtis hous-, 
Jamaica Plain (Boston) . Built by Willia.a 
Curtis, 1639 ! occupied as headquarters by a 
portion of the Rhode Island troops previous 
to the siege of Boston. On the brick has 
been transferred a photograph of the house. 
Razed 1886. 

Bullet found on Breed's or Bunker Hill when 
the Monument was erected. 

Mass. Senate, 1856, by Biifford after Wins- 
loiv Homer. 

Augustus P. Martin, Mayor of Boston, 18S4. 

Knife, fork and spoon combined, carried by 
the donor through the Rebellion. 



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DESCRIPTION. 



Hutchings, Win. V 
Hutchinson, C. C. 

Intjalls, Frank B. 



Jeftries, Dr. Ii. Joy 
Jones, Major K. J. 



Lamson, Col. D. .S. 
li'esion. 



Lathrop, John 



Lawrence, Amos A. 

Leach, The Misses, 

Charlcstown . 
Lincoln, F. W. 

Little, John Mason 



Lyman, Mrs. E. R. 
Ih'ooklitic. 

Marsh, Stillman P. 



jWood. 

I Oak. 

Commiss'n 

Auto. 

Wood. 
Photo. 

Broadside. 

I Cloth. 
I Steel Ens:. 



Earthenw'ej 
Coffee-mill.! 
Billet. j 

2 Photos. I 



Eni 



Broadside. 



Piece of oak from British frigate Somerset, of 
64 guns, built July 14, 1748, wrecked off 
Provincetown, Nov. 2, 177S. 

Carved and gilded figure of Mercury, with 
wings outspread, alighting on the earth. 
From the store of Mr. Hutchinson, formerly 
occupied by F. W. Lincoln, 126 Commer- 
cial St. Said to be the oldest emblematical 
sign in Boston. 

Sailing Permit on parchment, with engraved 
head-piece of I3oston Light, etc. : signed 
in blank, Andrew Jackson. 

Letter signed by Geo. Washington, dated 
Feb. 22, 1788, to the Marquis Chartier 
des Lalbinicre. 

Balluster, carved, from the gallery at the head 
of the stair-case of the old Hancock House. 

Five views of the e.xterior and interior of the 
State House, Doric Hall, State Library, 
Council Chamber, and Governors Office. 

"The Striped Pig," with engraving. An in- 
cident of the Dedham muster, Sept. 13, 
1838. 

Ancient Fire Bag, marked John Lamson, 1816, 
also a Bed Key. 

Ball Card with portrait of Louis Philippe, 
given in honor of Prince de Joinville, Nov., 
1 84 1. I'^n^- by Hopwood. 

Small Blue Pitcher, the State House on one 
side, and City Hall, of New York, on rev. 

Coffee-mill and Lock, from the old brick 
house. No. 23 Unity St., built about 171 1. 

Invitation to the ball given in honor of the 
Prince of Wales, Oct. i, i860. 

House corner of Columbia and Essex Sts., 
known as the .Sheafe House, and also 
occupied by Moses Wallach, erroneously 
called by Drake "the Jew."* For a time 
occupied by Lord Percy at the time of the 
battle of Lexington. 

Portrait of Theodore Lyman, Mayor of 
Boston, 1834. After bust by Dexter; 
Smith, Eng. 

Contemporary Broadside, 
of Independence, July 
John Hancock. Prest. 
Printed bv John Gill. 



The Declaration 

4, 1776. Signed, 

"America, Boston. 

and Powars and 



Willis, in Queen Street.'" 



*R. W. Templeman, of Baltimore, a direct descendant of Wallach, in a letter to the Society, writes: 
MoL<e.s Wallach was a regular attendant of a neighboring Christian Church."' 



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DESCRIPTION. 



Marsh, Stillman P. 'Bill. ! 

I I 

I Autograph . 

" I Newspaper I 



May, John Joseph | Broadside. 



Minns, Thomas lHeIioty23e 

Morse, L. Foster I " 

I 

Nims, j\Irs. Maria C. ICol'd Lith. 

Otis, Harrison Gray, Oil Paint'e 
and Prince, Hon. F.O., 
Plxecutors. 



I Steel Eng. 



Piece of Continental Money found in repair- 
ing the Old State House,' 1786. 

Autograph Letter of Gov. John Wenlworth, 
ofN. H., Oct. 8, 1781. 

"The Herald of Freedom and Federal 
Advertiser," June 12, 1789. Account of 
Washington's visit to King's Chapel and 
elsewhere. 

" The Boston Gazette and Country Journal," 
Nov. 2, 1789. 

Petition of the inhabitants against the building 
of the Federal St. Bridge to South Boston, 
which was then called " a howling wilder- 
ness,"' March 15, 1824. 

Five Portraits of ministers of the Second 
Church. E?igraved by C. E. Wagstaff and 
J. Andrews, after old paintings, represent- 
ing Rev. Increase Mather, Rev. Cotton 
Mather, Rev. John Lathrop, Rev. Henry 
Ware, Jr., and Rev. Chandler Robbins. 

Map of the street surveys of the burnt district, 
showing proposed improvements. Nov. 12, 
1872. Thos. W. Davis, City Surveyor. 

Portrait of Hugh O'Brien, Mayor of Boston, 
1886-7. 

Nims's Battery in camp at Baltimore, 1861. 
E. Sachse (Sr^ Co., Lith., Baltimore. 

Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis. G. P. A. Hcaly, 
Paris, 1876. Born in Boston, 1796, died 
January 21, 1873. Mrs. Otis did more for 
IJoston than any one of her se.x had ever 
previously accomplished. In 1840 she 
helped by a Fair the completion of Ihmker 
Hill Monument; by a successful Ball she 
secured $10,000 towards purchasing Mt. 
Vernon. She persuaded the .State Legis- 
lature to make Washington's Birthday a 
legal holiday. During the Civil War she 
established the Bank of Faith, and aided 
wounded soldiers throughout tlie United 
States. Mrs. Otis was the daughter of 
Wm. Boardman, who afterwards changed 
his name to Wm. Henderson Boardman; 
he married Eliza Henderson, the daughter 
of the High Sheriff. This portrait is of 
their daughter, Eliza Henderson Board- 
man. 

Portrait in miniature of Mrs. Otis. Atn. Bank 
Note Co. Eng. Engraved for the bills of 
the Mount Vernon Bank. 



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DKSCRIPTION. 



Otis, Harrison Gray, 
and Prince, PIon.F.O. 
Executors. 



Pratt, Dr. J. F 
Chelsea. 



Auto. 



! Photo. 



Cop. plate 
Etchincr. 



i Broadside. 



Reed, Georsje B. 



Reed, J. P. 



Litho. 



Russell. Mrs. S. II. ICertiikate. 

I 
I 
I 

Sari<ent. Geore;e W. i Litho. 



Savage, E. H. 



Pholo. 



Slater, Andrew C. 



Smith, William D. 



\Vh. Satin. 



Iron. 



Letter of thanks from the City of Boston to 
Mrs. H. G. Otis, "For her patriotic ser- 
vices to the wounded heroes of our war." 
Signed F. W. Lincoln, Jr., Mayor, Oct. 
30, 1865. 

Interior view of the mansion of Mrs. Harrison 
Gray Otis, Jr., j.i Mt. Vernon St., about 
1845. 

Sir Charles Henry Frankland, by Miss Anne 
S.Pratt, copied from a photograph obtained 
inThirldeby Hall, Yorkshire, by Rev. Elias 
Nason. 

" Elegy on the departure of Gen. George 
Washington." Composed by S. Howe, 
F'eb. 22, 1800. 

" Bloody Indian Massacre," or the Battle 
of St. Clair, Miami Village, Ohio, Nov. 4, 
1791. Two thousand men, under Gen. St. 
Clair, were surprised by five thousand 
Indians, and the former were mostly 
destroyed. Printed by E. Russell for 
Thomas Bassett, of Dunbarton, New 
Hampshire. 

Rev. George Richards, Pastor of the Central 
Congregational Church. Born Nov. 2, 
1816, died Oct. 20, 1870. The church 
edifice stood on Winter St., when Mr. 
Richards was Pastor. 

Certificate of donation, issued by the " La- 
die.s' Sanitary Relief Association," 1S61; 
signed Mrs. E. Henderson Otis. 

Wm. Abrams, merchant of Middle St. Born 
Jan. 16, 1742, died Sept. 27, 1843, aged 
loi years, 8 months, 11 days. 

The Chiefs of Police of the city of Boston. 
Francis Tukey, 1846-52; Gilbert Nourse. 
1852-54; Robert Taylor, 1S54-56; Daniel 
J. Coburn, 1856-61 ; Josiah L. C. Amee, 
1S61-63; John Kurtz, 1863-70; Edward H. 
Savage, 1870-78. 

Edward H. Savage, member of the Boston 
Police force thuty-six years, now Truant 
Officer. 

I Progranime of the Boston Theatre, Jan. 30, 

1 1828. Printed by True dr' Greene. The 

I plays were, " Deaf as a Post," " Isabella," 

I and -'Family Jars." The entertainment 

I v>'cis given for the benefit of Mrs. Slomans. 

i Latch from the tap-room of the Eastern Stage- 
house. Ann St. 



43 



DESCRIPTION. 



SpHIer, W. H. 



I Water-col. 



Stickaey. J. Henry, iHeliotype. 
Baltimore. j 

Temple, Thomas F. | Photo. 



Ward, Miss Harriott T. : Glass. 

Wan-en, W. Wilkins j Chair. 

i 

iwood. 

I 

Weston, Alls. F. I. Litho. 
R ox-bury. 

Earthen- 
ware. 

Porcelain. 



Wheelwright, S. W., Cards. 

iVew York. 



Notice. 



Wheildon, W. VV., 
Concord. 



Wood- 
block. 
Satin. 



The Old Salt House, Long Wharf. Ed- 
win Forrest formerly spent here many a 
happy hour with his friend James Oakes, 
known to the press under the pseudonym 
of "Acorn ;" and Hawthorne is said to 
have written here a portion of the " Scarlet 
Letter." 

Rev. Benjamin Colman, D.D. After Sinibcrt. 
First Pastor of the Brattle Sq. (Manifesto) 
Ch., Aug. 4, 1699. Died, Aug. 29, 1747. 

Green Dragon Tavern, 1712. In all the local 
events previous to our Revolution, the 
"Green Dragon" occupied a prominent 
part. 

Portion of a window from the Royall House, 
Medford, inscribed by a diamond, " Isaac 
Royall, April 25, 1749." (Identified as his 
autograph.) 

Carved Mahogany Chair given to Mrs. Gov. 
Gerry on her marriage. One of a set made 
in 1 73 1. 

Pulpit door from the Second Church, Han- 
over St. Built 1719. 

Daniel Webster. After tlic iniitiaturc by Har- 
vey, Petidleto?!, Lith. 

Copper-lustre and Light Blue Tea .Set ; odd 
shape. 

Cream-white Pitcher, thirteen stars on the 
side, said to have been made near Phila- 
delphia, and purchased by an ancestor in 
1792. 

Chinese Bowl widi raised figures in colors, 
formei-ly belonging to Rev. Roger Price, 
Rector, King's Chapel, June 25, 1729, to 
April II, 1747 ; Commissary of the Bishop 
of London, 1730-4S; born Dec. 6, 1696, 
died at Leigh, England, Dec. 8, 1762. 

Two Ball Cards to Concert Hall and Wash- 
ington Hall, xMar. 2, 1819, and Mar. 31, 
1 8 19. N. Dearborn, Eng. 

Printed Call to the Independent Boston 
Fusileers, Aug. 31, 1822, S. Sargent, Jr., 
Clerk. " N. B. — You will bring your 
knife, fork, spoon, and blanket, and extra 
pair of loose white trousers." 

Engraving of Lamp-lighter, etc., used for 
printing their circulars about 1 840. 

Concord and Lexington Badge, worn at the 
Anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill. 

Badge worn by the Press at tht; World's 
Jubilee, 1872. 



44 



DESCRIPTION. 



Whitman, Geo. H. 



1 Engrav'g. j 
I 
I 

Ticket. i 

I 
I 

Steelyarfls. ! 

Litho. ! 

Satin. 
Broadside. 



Whilmore, W. H. 




Oil Paintv 
Mezzo-tint 
Engraving 


.. 




Steel Eng. 

Litho. 
4 Helio- 

types. 


Winslow. Rev. W. 


C. 


Wood. 


Winthrop, R. C. 




Photo. 



Bill of Ebenezer Cloiigh, paper-hanger, i8oo, 
Manufactory, Charles Ri\'er bridge. En- 
i^raved headpiece by S. Hill. 

Ticket to Alumni Dinner on the 250th 
Anniversarv of Harvard College, issued to 
Mr. W., of the Class of 1827. Only 61 
graduates surviving, June 30, 1S86, of 
classes previous to 1828. 

Pair of Steelyards, with copper weights. 
Made by N. Dearborn, 1804. 

Missionary Packet Morning Star. C Drew, 
pin. v., J)ufford, Lit/i. 

Badge worn in the Clay campaign, 1840. 

General abstract of the Bill of Mortality for 
Boston for 1822. John Win.slow, Sec'y. 

Complete list of the members of the Board of 
Health of the town of Boston, from the 
date of organization, 1799 to 1822, when 
the town became a city, with the number of 
years' service of each member. 

Order of Services at the Old South Church, 
May 18, 1808, at the ordination of the Rev. 
Joshua Huntington. 

Gen. B. F. Butler, Gov. of Mass., 1883. 

Princess Anna Sophia, Electress of Hanover. 
Simon, Eng. Mother of George I, of Eng- 
land ; died xMay 28, 17x4. 

Rev. Daniel Sharp, D. D. ; born Hudders- 
field, Eng., 1783, died 1853. Pastor of 
Charles St. Bap. Church. J. Sartain, Eng. 

Gamaliel Bailey, Editor of National Ei-a. 

Views of the Old State House. Previously 
described in "Proceedings, 1885.'' 

Carved Bracket from the Hancock House. 

Daniel Webster. After the original Fainting 
by Eastman yoJnison. forR. C. Winthrop, 
in 1846. 



LOANS 
TO THE SOCIETY'S COLLECTION, 1886.* 



DESCRIPTION. 



Appletou, Wm. S. 



1 Colored 
]Cop. plate 
I Engrav\t(. 
Silver. 



Wood. 
Earth' we. 



Oil Paint'g.j 



Litho. 



[Certificate. 



; Ticket. 



' Ens:rav'ir- 



"An exact view of the late Battle at Bunker 
Hill, June 17. 1775." '' B. Romans in Aere 

iiicidit .'^ 

Medal worn by the first colored organization 
in J3oston, knov/n as the " Bucks of Amer- 
ica." (Engraved.) The Mass. Hist. Soc. 
have their flag. They were prominent at 
the time of Gov. Hancock. 

A .Sampan or Indian succotash howl, made 
from the root of a tree. 

Liverpool Pitcher. Portraits in black thereon 
of Capts. Pike of the Wasp, and Jones 
of the Macedonian . 

Three-quarter length portrait of Gen. William 
Brattle in full dress military costume of the 
time of the French and Indian wars, 1750- 
59. At the evacuation of Boston he went 
to Halifax, where he died in 1776. From 
the Hawarth Estate, signed J. Singleton 
Copley, pinx. 1756. Painted by the artist 
when he was but 19 years of age. 

Subscription agreement to a map of New 
England, dated Boston, Oct. 4, 1784. Said 
map to be six feet square and to be had for 
the sum of eighteen shillings each (it never 
was published). Signatures of John Han- 
cock, Lafayette, Gen. Knox, Robert Treat 
Paine, James Lovell and 219 other promi- 
nent Bostonians. 

Certificate issued to Hon. Nathan Appleton, 
April 3, 1S43, as member of the "Naval 
Library and Institute." With representa- 
tion of Boston Harbor. War Ships, etc., 
after the painting by Salmon, by B. IV. 
Thayer 6-= Co. 

Ticket to Musical Festival at Music Hall, 
Sept. 25, 1 86 1, in honor of Prince Napo- 
leon and Princess Clothilde. 

Ode on the introduction of the Cochiluate 
water, Oct. 25, 1848. Representations of 
a fountain, etc. 



'Ihu bold initials iu the first column refer to corresponding letters in the heliotype illustration. 



40 



DESCRIPTION. 



Appleton, Wm. S. 'Steel Eng. 



Bigelow, F. H.. 

Ca»ibridge. 



M 



Map. 



Engrnv'g. 
Earthen- 
ware . 



Briggs. Mrs. Henry P. 
Br oak line. H 



Bryant, G. J. F. 



Burra":e. \\\ Clarence 



Gold. 

Letter, 



Earthen- 
ware. 



Auto. 



Mahogany 



Certificate issued to Nathan Appleton by the 
Bunker Hill Monument Assoc. Fair, view 
of Bunker Hill and Boston in the distance. 

Map of Boston and Boston Harbor, 1744. 

Robert G. Shaw. 

Liverpool Pitcher. '• Battle between the 
IVasp and Reindeer'''' \ on the reverse, 
"Com. McDonough's victory on Lake 
Champlain, Sept. 11, 1814.'" Bentley, Wear 
& Bourne, Eng's, Shelton, Staffordshire. 

Blue Platter. Landing of Lafayette at Castle 
Garden, New York, Aug. 16, 1824. 

Small " Army and Navy'" Pitcher. Maroon 
on cream. 

"Pilgrim Pitcher." Blue on white. Made 
in 1820 to commemorate (he landing of the 
Pilgrims. 

Pin containing the hair of Geo. Washington. 

Copy of letter referring to the above, dated 
Mt. Vernon, March 12, 1800, written by 
Martha Washington to the Misses Bowen 
of Providence. 

Pitcher made for Jonathan Loring about 
1800. This relic holds six gallons, and is 
said to have been made by the Wedge- 
woods from a design taken to them by Mr. 
Loring. On the front is a picture of 
" Rapid fire engine No. 13," putting out a 
fire in the country. The name of Nathaniel 
Ilammond, master, on same. Elaborately 
decorated in colors, with tulips and other 
flowers, grapes, etc. In a medallion is the 
legend, " Federal Fire Company."' 

Letter from Nathaniel Cotton, Francis J. Mer- 
rick, Jonas Meriam, Jr., Committee for the 
Company of Engine No. 13. Addressed to 
Jonathan Loring, Esq., Boston, March 7, 
1827, explaining the dissolution of the 
Company, and referring to his gift of the 
above mentioned Pitcher. 

Indenture signed by Rev. John Hancock of 
Lexington and Thomas Hancock his 
son, 1 7 17. (See note. Report of the 
Committee on Rooms, p. 26.) 

Ancient bevelled Mirror with black panel, on 
which is a carved basket of fioiit and slieaf 
of wheat, said to have belonged to John 
Alden, and accompanied with the afiidavit 
of John W. Alden, a descendant in the 
eighth generation, and purchased from him 
in the old Alden house, Duxbury. 



OWNER. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Bun-a.i;e, W. Clarence 



Earthen- i Pair of green and gold Decanters, formerly 
! ware. ! belonging to Gov. Edward Winslow, 1639. 
Accompanying is the affidavit of Mrs. Ruth 
B. Winsor, a descendant, of whom they 
were purchased in Duxbury, March, 1886. 
Silver-lustre Tea Set, as used in Provincial 
times ; Creamer, Sugar, and Teapot. Earth- 
enware, worked with ornamental decora- 
tions. Perfect. Bought of Cushmans, 
Duxbury. 
Copper-lustre Teapot of Provincial times ._ 
Perfect, fine form. Very rare. Bought ot 
Lelands of Holliston. 
Copper-lustre Pitcher, ribbed around the 
body, band of raised flowers on light 
ground. Bought of Deborah Luce of Pem- 
berton. 
Copper-lustre Pitcher, with band of flowers. 
Bought of Mrs. Benj. Leland of Holliston. 
The Bates Pitcher. Light blue decoradons, 
monuments and landscapes in pink, from 
Abigail Bates, Scituate Light, one of the 
famous sisters, who, by their patriotic ef- 
forts, frightened away the British troops, 
1812. Recently deceased (March, 1886). 
Purchased in Scituate. 
Stoneware Pitcher in colors, with raised 
fioTu-es, fox hunt, etc., Wedgewood style. 
Purchased of the Wheeler family, Allston, 
I Mass. 
Faience Pitcher, with twisted handle and 
blue decorations. Very small. Delicate 
I workmanship. Brewster family, Duxbury. 
i Comic Pitcher, with a Frenchman skinning a 
j cat ; on the reverse, an Englishman and a 
barrel of ale, marked "October,"' with dog- 
gerel verses. Winsor and Moulton fam- 
ilies, Duxbury. 
Small Pitcher, with two fine prints represcnt- 
' ing " Industry" and " Liberty." 
' Porcelain Sauce Pitcher, blue on white and 

stars. Called by some, Lowestoft. 
I Cauohley Pitcher gilded, and with colors. A 
! face of a man laughing, on the front : mark 
\ C on the bottom. 

Graceml-shaped IMtcher of very delicate 
; workmanship. Medallions representing 
Europe, and on reverse, legend, " Peace 
! and Prosperity to America." Purple, with 
I silver-lustre. Elegant form. Bought of 
, Miss Hall of South Duxbury. 



4S 



ijkscrh'Tion. 



IJurrage, W. Clarence JEartlien- | Copper-lustre Pitcher, with medallions in 

! ware. j colors, entitled " Charity.'' 

" " D " i Pitcher, with raised figures in colors, in- 

I scribed Gen. Hill and Lord Wellington. 

; Bought of Dorrs of Sherborn. 

" " F " I Copper-lustre Pitcher, with Flaxman's designs 

1 I in relief, in cream color. 

" " ! 1 " I One of the famous Washington Pitchers, 

known as "Apotheosis of W^ashington." 
See Prime's " Pottery and Porcelain,'" page 
361. Formerly owned in Portland by 
Joshua W. Cushman. 1800. 

Pilgrim Pitcher, made in 1820 for the Bi- 
centennial Celebration of the Landing of 
the Pilgrims at Plymouth; " the ware did 
not arrive in season for the banquet, and 
was sold at auction." Very rare. 

Pair of Liverpool Pitchers, with landscapes, 
Italian scenes, etc. Purchased from Capt. 
Holmes of Duxbury and Lawrence Kings- 
bury, of Needham. Fine prints. i2,tn. high. 

State House Pitcher, with a view of Beacon 
Street, about 1800. Large and rare. 

Lafayette Pitcher. "Fayette the Country's 
Guest." Fine port, after Scheffer (1822). 
" Washington his Country's Father." Good 
port, after an early picture. "Republics 
are not always ungrateflil." Made by 
Richard Hall & Son about 1824. Rare. 
Purchased of Capt. Cheever, Attleboro. 

Copper-lustre Pitcher, sometimes called gold- 
lustre, with a circlet of violets and other 
flowers. Goodwins, Southampton. 

Copper-lustre Pitcher, straight form, purple 
garlands, and ballet dancers in relief. Brown 
body. 

Lustre Pitcher, with raised figm^es of dogs, in 
colors, representing a hunting scene. 
Joslyns, Duxbury. 

Faience Pitcher, with arabesque figures of 
good design in blue and gold. Fullers of 
Wrentham. 

Faience Pitcher, with flowers in colors. 
From Dr. Dearborn, Exeter, N. H. (The 
Dearborn House is one of the oldest in 
town, and Gen. Washington is said to have 
been a guest there.) 

Liverpool Pitcher, in colors. Figme of 
Washington, etc. Date, 1804, with quota- 
tions from Thomas jefierson's speech. 
Pitchers in colors arc very scarce. 




IM 



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K 



v.\ 




Jtf 




DESCRIPTION. 



Burrajre, W. Clarence 



;Eartlien- 
I ware. 



Clark, Chas. E. 



Codman. Win. C. 



Me7,zotint 

Eng. 
Silver. 



I Medal. 



I Photo. 



Liverpool Pitcher, with frigate Constitution, 

on the reverse a Provincial family dining. 
Liverpool Pitcher. " Battle of t!ie Wasp 

and Reindeer, July 8, 1814 ;" on the reverse, 

the second view of Commodore McUon- 

ough's victory. Bought of Capt. Cheever, 

At'tleboro. 
Lord Nelson Pitcher, with portrait. 
Queen Victoria Pitcher. Small blue pitcher, 

with medallion, in pink, of Victoria and 

Prince Albert. Printed about 1843. 
Old English Blue Willow Ware Jug. 
Majolica Style Jug, with figures of huntsmen 

in colors. 
Octagon Jug, with light lustre decorations 

on light ground, band of raised flowers 

around the neck. Wind-mills, castles, etc. 

Bought of N. M. Fisher, So. Franklin. 
Small Flat Jug. Little Boy Blue, with his 

sheep. 
Brown Earthenware Jug, with leaves, vines, 

etc. Bought of Lincoln, Cohasset. 
Pair of Ale Mugs, one decorated in red, with 

patriotic legend, the other with the " Three 

Graces." Beautiful prints. 
Brown and Blue Pitcher, with serpentine 

decoration. Tafts, Newton, N. H. 
Small Cream Pitcher, octagon form, with 

vellow body, and ferns and leaves decorated 

in light brown, of good designs. Bought 

of Jas. S. Tha3'er, Blackstone. 
Small Cream, with yellow body, pebbled, blue 

bands. 
Pitcher. Figures in white, in relief on blue 

jasper ware. Fox hunt, etc. Imitation of 

Wedge wood. 
Pitcher. Figures in relief on fawn colored 

ground. Made hy Wood & Caldwell, 

English potters, 1790. Stamped on bottom. 
Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, Collector Port of 

Boston. Sargent, pinx., J.R.Smit/i, Kng. 
Medal awarded to Miss Leighton, marked 

" Town Medal for Females. Instituted by 

the School Committee, 182 1."' 
Admiral Vernon Medal. To commemorate 

the Battle of Porto Bello, Nov. 2. 1739. 
John Codman, D. D., Minister Second Ch., 

Dorchester, Mass., at age of 26. After J. S. 

Copley. Born Aug. 13, 1782. Died Dec. 

23. 1S47. 



so 



OWNER. 




DKSCRIPTION. 


Colburn 


Jeremiah 


Steel. 


Die of Threepenny Stamp. Made and used 
by the Mass. Bay Colony, 1755. 




tt 


Writ. 


Warrant of attachment against the estate of 
John Whiton, Hingham, signed Middleton 
Cooke, Clerk, showing the print of the 
above stamp. 


Crosby, 


Stephen T., 


Earthen- 


Black Cream Pitcher, said to have been made 


Hing 


Iiafi!. 


ware. 


by Wedgewood. 
Silver-lustre Cream Pitcher. This pitcher 
and the preceding belonged to Gen. lienj. 
Lincoln. 






Leather. 


Pair English Child's Shoes, about 140 years 
old, made for Maj. Baylies, Aide to Gen. 
Lincoln, who later married his daughter. 


Cupples, 


Upham & Co. 


Water- 


Paul Revere's House at North Sq. George 






color. 


R. Tolman, pinx. 


Denison 


John N. 


Photo. 


Rev. Paul Dean of the First Universalist 
Church, cor. Hanover and North Bennet 
Sts., Oct., 1813, to April 6, 1823: Bul- 
nnch St. Ch., 1823-40. Born March 28, 
1782; died Oct. i, i860. Grand Master of 
Masons in Massachusetts, etc. 


Edes. H 


. H. 


Crayon. 


Lydia Coffin, born Mi.v lO. 1732. Married 
John Leach of London, in the New North 
Church, July 24, 1750, died Mar. 25, 1811. 


" ' 


' 


Silver. 


Pair Sugar Tongs. J.L.S. (John and Sarah 
Leacli) 1735. 




' 


Photo. 


Two Views of No. Bennet St., showing the 
Leach house. 


4. . 


' 


Glass. 


Old crimson Salt-cellar with scalloped edge. 


<i * 


* 


Linen. 


Child's Cap used successively on the seven- 
teen children of John Leach. 


Ellery, Harrison 


Photo. 


Col. Joseph Ward, born in Newton, July 2, 








1737. Appointed Co!. April 10, 1777. He 








served at Concord and Bunker Hill. Died 








Feb. 14, 1812. 


(C 






Capt. Joseph Peirce, born Dec. 25, 1745, in 
Boston. Merchant and Legislator. Mar- 
ried April 6, 1 78 1, .\nn. dau. of Col. Thos. 
Dawes. 


t< 


" 


" 


Ann, wife of Capt. Joseph Peirce, born in 
Boston, May 19, 1753; d. T^Iarch 4, 1812. 


<( 


t( 




Maj. Joseph Hardy Peirce. b. Purchase St., 
Boston, March 8, 1773. Married Dec, 
1 79 1, Frances Temple Cordis. 


<< 


«t 




Isaac Peirce, born in Boston, Oct. 12, 1722. 
Mairied Jan. 5. 1745, Mary, daughter of 
Josepli Hardy of Salem ; d. Dec. 20. 181 1. 


<t 


" 


" (2) 


Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Rogers. 1750. 


tt 






John Stevens Ellery of Boston, 1773. 



51 



Ellerv, Harrison 



Ellis, Rowland E 



Photo. 



Earthen- 
ware. 



(2) 



(2) 



Embroid'y. 



Silver. 



Will. 



DESCRIPTION. 

Madam Ellery (Ann Sargent), 1692. After 

Copley. 
Hon. William Ellery, Deputy Governor of 

R. I., 1701. 

Benjamin Ellery, 1705. 

Mrs. Capt. Epes Ellery. 

Hon. Benj. Ellery and wife, 1669 and 1677. 

Benjamin, son of Gov. Ellery, and brother of 
the Signer. 

Mrs. John Stevens Ellery, formerly a resident 
in the Knight Mansion, Jamaica Plain 
(Boston). Afterwards she became Mrs. 
Gen. Green of S. C. 

Capt. John Ellery of Boston, 1681. 

Miss Jane Ellery, 1745. 

Lucy Channing, mother of Rev. William E. 
Channing. After Allston. 

Hon. Abraham Redwood, and his residence, 
Portsmouth, R. I. 

Capt. John Holland of Boston, from a minia- 
ture. 

Gov. Moses Gill. After Copley. 

Stephen Browne and Mrs. Mary Barron 
Browne. After Copley. 

Army and Navy Pitcher. Medallions with 
various names. 

Large Pitcher in blue, with the willow pattern 
thereon. 

Pitcher with jxirple ground, and copper-lus- 
tre ; letters D. S. on front, body covered 
with arabesque figures. Made in England 
for Capt. Daniel Saj^ward. 

Small Wedgewood Cream-pot, buft" color. 

Hatchment worked in crewels. The Arms of 
the Sargent family. " Nathaniel and Mary 
PlUery, 1745." 

Pictorial representation of the Garden of 
Eden ; satin with embossed figures. Adam 
and Eve in costume of the time of King 
George IV. Executed by Mary Parsons, 
Gloucester, 1740. 

Quart Pitcher made by Paul Revere, marked 
on the front J. & S. E. (Joshua and Sarah 
Ellis;) on right side, L. L. D. (Lydia L. 
Dawes, the daughter) ; on left, R. E. (Row- 
land Ellis, the son) ; stamped on the bot- 
tom. Revere. 

Copy of Will of Sir Harry Frankland, which 
deeded to Agnes, his wife, the house in 
Garden Court St. (See page 27, antea.) 



DESCRIPTION. 



Ellis, Rowland 



Fisher, Miss S. A. 
Goodwin. D.'\niel, Jr, 
Chicago. 



Hale, Judge, 

Foxcroft, iMc. 
Hayes, Hon. John L. 



Harris, Geo. VV. 

Hassam, Fred F. G 
N 



Holden, Henrv A. 



Kimball, Moses 



Photo. i Centre-piece of inlaid wood containing the 

I Arms of the Clark family, from the old 
Garden Court St. house. See illustration. 

Subscrip- Signed by Gov. Hutchinson, I'aul Revere, 

tion paper, i Thos. Lee and many others, towards the 

I support of the Rev. William Welsteed, 

\ 1747, of the New Brick Church, died 1753. 

JDeed. Signed by Paul Revere and his wife Sarah. 

1 (See page 28, autea.) 
lEarthenwVi Silver-lustre Pitcher. Plain. 

Crayon. 1 Portrait of Samuel Pitts, Class of 1830, H. U. 
I Died 1868. Frederick F. Wright, pinx. 

2 Photos. John and Elizabeth Lindall Pitts, 1728. 

i After Smibert. 
" I Samuel Pitts. After Copley. 

" j Mrs. Daniel Goodwin, Jr. (Also photographs 

I of other descendants of the Pitts familv). 
I . i . ... "* 

iPrescrip- i Written prescription issued to James Pitts, 

I tion. j 1775, by Dr. Joseph Warren: "and a vol- 

! I atile tincture of granicum in the most con- 

I j venient vehicle, &c."' 

Auto. Autograph Letter of John Hancock, dated 

Feb. 13, 1771, to the Hon. James Pitts. 
Receipt. Receipt from Thomas Brattle, Treasurer of 
Brattle Square Church, issued April 30, 
1700, to John Pitts, for the sum of 15 
pounds, for the rental forever of pew 22. 
Auto- Also, a Scrap-book containing many valuable 

graphs. autographs of Govs. Hutchinson and 

Bowdoin, Isaac Royall and others. 
Steel. Surgeon's Saw used at the Battle of Bunker 

Hill by Dr. David Jones. 

Oil Paint. Mrs. Col. Thomas Marshall. J. S. Copley, 
pinx. N'ee Lucy Allen, daughter of Joseph 
Allen of Czloucester. Erroneously de- 
scribed by Perkins as being arrayed in white 
satin, flowers, etc. Dressed in cherry satin, 
book in hand, with no flowers. 

Silver. Cream Pitcher, made by Paul Revere, stamp- 

ed with his name. 

Earthenw"ei English Tobv or ale jug, with rich colors. 

Porcelain. Chinese cat, blue on white. The two pre- 
preceding articles from collection of Capt. 
Ebenezer Eaton, Dorchester. 

i Colored Engraving with doggerel verses, representing 

jcopper pl'te l)r, Hudson, forger, in the pillory. NathH 
I Hard, Ffig. 

jOil PainPg.j John Tileston, died Oct. 13, 1826, aged 90 

j I years; a scholar and schoolmaster in ]>os- 

j I ton for 80 years, f^rom the Boston Museum. 

I I ^t'otJiai! A. Gi'ee?riCi>0'/. pinx. 



Do 



DESCRIPTION. 



Lamb, Mrs. C. R. 



Lincoln, Francis, 
Cohassd. 



Little, John Mason 



Marshall, J. F. B., 

Weston . 



Earthen- 
ware . 



Leather. 

Earthen- 
ware. 



Oil Paintv 



Auto. 



Oil PaintV 



Mass. Charit. Mech. 

Assoc'n, by 
F. W. Lincoln, Treas. 



Liverpool Punch Bowl, I'ortrait of John 
Adams printed thereon, and nine other 
designs. Formerly belonging to Ichabod 
Nichols of Salem. 

Cream-colored English Pitcher with gilding ; 
octagonal form ; the sides are covered with 

gilt stars. 

A man's pointed Shoe, wooden heel, found 
in the old Lincoln house, Cohasset, 1775. 

Four blue Tiles from the so-called Percy 
house, now destroyed, corner of Columbia 
and Essex Sts. Lord Percy occupied this 
house at the commencement of the Revo- 
lution. 

Col. Thomas Marshall (see frontispiece). 
y. S. Copley, piiix. Selectman of Boston 
when it was occupied by British troops and 
invested by Washington. He was in com- 
mand of Castle Island in Boston Harbor 
when the State troops were being recruited 
for the war. He was Commander of the 
famous Boston Regiment (loth Mass.). 

The Muster-roll of the loth Mass. Battalion, 
Col. Thos. Marshall, Commander. Signed 
by him. West Point, Aug., 1779. 

Christopher Marshall, brother of Col. Mar- 
shall, Commander of the Fourth Company 
in the above Regiment (in full uniform). 

Mrs. Christopher Marsliall in the costume of 
the times, with remarkable head-dress. 

Portrait, full length, of Harrison Gray Otis, 
Mayor in this building, 1829-31 ; b. Oct. 8, 
1760; d. Oct. 2S, 1848. Presented by the 
citizens of Boston, previous to 1842, to the 
M. C. M. A. Chester Harding/piiix. 

Paul Revere. By Miss Jane Stuart, after 
Gilbert Stuart. 

Samuel T. Armstrong, Mayor. 1836-39, and 
Acting Governor, 1835. iiorn April 29, 
1784:' d. March 26. 1850. f. T. Spear, 
after Harding, 1856. 

Benjamin i^ussell, b. Sept. 13. 1761 ; d. Jan. 
4, 1845. Editor of the Columbian Ceniinel. 
Copied by Moses Wight, after Chester 
Harding. Major Russell was twenty-four 
years Representative of Boston to the 
General Court and several years in the 
State Senate. Mar. 24, 1784, commenced 
the publication of the Federalist newspaper 
above named, which for a long time had 
a wide-spread influence. 



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DESCRIPTION. 



Mass. Historical Soc. 



Wood. 



Maunder, Mrs. G. W. Earlhen- 
j ware. 
Muller, Armin j Colored 

Crayon. 
Oil Painf s:. 



Nichols, C. C. lEarthen- 

i ware. 



Nichols, Mrs. Levi L. 
Cohasset. 



Oliver, Edw. Brattle Silver. 
Otis, Harrison Grav ilvorv. 



Oil PaintV. 
Ivory. 

iOil Paint's.-. 



Steel Ens;. 



Model of IJrattle Square Church, giving 
ever}- detail of interior and exterior, show- 
ing the l)all in place on the front. Dedi- 
cated, 1773. Sold and demolished, 1871. 
Made from tlie timbers of the old church 
by the foreman emplo3-ed by Jabez H. 
.Sears, contractor, from drawings b}' Arthur 
H. Vinal. 

Copper-lustre Pitcher. Raised fruit and 
flowers. 

Harrison (iray Otis, 1845. •^- ■^' D!(bourjal, 

p!)lX. 

Miss Rosanna Black, afterwards i\Irs. Joseph 
Blake, and later Mrs. Benjamin Whitman; 
attributed by Perkins to Copley, but 
doubted h\ Mrs. Whitman's son, a mem- 
ber of the Bostonian Society.* Formerly 
exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum. 

Tol)}- or ale jug, rich under-glaze colors. 
Fornierly belonged to Silas Morton of 
Penibroke, an officer in the Revolution. 

White Pitcher, colored figures in relief, repre- 
senting Dutch drinking scenes, etc. 

Liverpool Pitcher, with Masonic emblems 
and portrait of Washington. Made for 
(ien. James Hall, an officer of the Revolu- 
tion. Marked "J & P. ( Persis) Hall." 

Franklin Medal, 1S35. 

Miniature of High .Slierifif Joseph Henderson. 
J'lih'x Aiiihlard, pi>tx. April 23, 1783, he 
proclaimed from the lialconv of the Old 
State House, the Treaty of Peace with 
Great liritain. 

Cop}- of above, by /i'. 7". /l/llinos, lu'sfDii. 

Miniatm-e of Robert (iih-nan. He mairied 
Mary Boardman, v/ho after his death be- 
came Mrs. Jolin D. Bates. 

Harrison Gray Otis, Jr. Died 1827. 

Washington at Dorcliestcr Height.s. 
Gilbert Stuart, />y /i/s dam^htc} 
Stuart. 

Miniature of Wasl-iington, his tonil") at Mount 
Vernon, etc. Dcsiij^ncd t'v Ham mat Bil- 
//j/i^s. I-lin^raved by . ////. ]iank Note Co. 
Framed in wood from Mount Vernon. 
" Presented by Horace Barnes, Feb. 22, 
i860. E. Henderson Otis." 



After 
Jane 



* Her stepson, Mr. George H. Whitman, believes the ascription of this picture to Copley, by Perkins, 
cannot be correct ; " Rosanna Black, daughter of Andrew and Rachel Black, died Nov. or Dec. 1S4S, aged 
about 76; consequently she could have been but two years old when Copley went to England in 1774; the 
artist had no opportunity to paint her portrait in England; and by the testimony of the "familv the portrait 
cannot be that of Mrs. Anna Black, Miss 131ack"s mother; it must be the work of sonic other artist." 



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DESCRIPTION. 



Otis, Harrison Gray 



Otis, William C. 



Pitman, Joshua L. 

Charlestown . 



Pitts, Thomas, 
Detroit, Mich. 



Litho. 

Photo. 

Cop. plate 
Engrav'g. 



Litho. 

Cop. plate 
Engrav'g. 

Auto. 

Clipping. 
Embroid'y. 



Earthen- 
ware . 



Oil PaintV. 



George and Martha Washington. From the 

originals by Stuart, in the Athenaeum. 

L. Prang <Sr= Co. 
Washington. After tlic portrait by Wright. 
Washington. " Painted and engraved by E. 

Savage.''' The original at Harvard College. 

Savage was a pupil of Benjamin West, and 

died in 1817. 
Washington. After the statue by Canova. 

Aug. Bertini, Eng. 1824. 
Washington. After the statue by Gi-ecnough, 

in the Capitol grounds, Washington. 1840. 

Jacopo Bcrnai'di, Eng. 

Washington. After the statue by Crawford. 

L. Cainia, Lith. Rome, 1844. 
Copy of the Wan-ant for the execution of 

Charles I, Jan. 30, 1648. Signed by Oliver 

Cromwell and fifty-eight others. 
Book-plate of Washington. In same frame 

his autogra])h, and piece of lace worn l)v 

him. 

Allegorical print, with medallion of Washing- 
ton on a monument, surrounded with an- 
gels. E. G. Gridlcv, AV/i,'-., John Coles, 
Jr.,pinx. 

Letter of (Jeorge \\'ashington to Elbridge 
Gerry (afterwards Gov.), directed to Wa- 
tertown. dated Aug. 16, 1776. Written on 
a folio sheet, referring to the Mickmack 
Indians, sent by the Council to him. 

Clipping from a Boston paper of Dec. 30, 
1799, relating to the funeral of Geo. Wash- 
ington. 

Embroidery in crewels of tlie Hancock house, 
the Beacon, Christ Churcli, and portion of 
the Common showing the English Powder- 
house : figures of Jolin Hancock and ser- 
vant, Dorothy Quincy, etc., etc. Executed 
1755-60 by Miss Hannah Otis, sister of 
James Otis, Jr., tlie patriot, and aunt of 
Harrison Gray Otis. 

Pair of Liverpool Pitchers. One stamped 
with the .Siiipwrights' arms, and a full- 
riyged ship on the reverse ; both with Ma- 



-sonic emblems and 
" Joshua Pitman." 

James Powdoin, father 
doin. Born 1676: 
luidgcr. pin. v. 1747. * 



gilding. Inscribed 

of Gov. James Bow- 
died 1747. Jo.<;cph 



In'" Provincial jPictures by Brush and Pen," an Address delivered before tlie I<ostonian Society, 
May II, 1886, bvD. Goodwin, Jr., will be found lie!iotypes of these paintings. 



56 



DESCRIPTION. 



Pitts, Thomas, 
Detroit. 



iOil Painfc 



Porter, Rev. E. G. 
Prescott, W. L., 

and C. J. 
Rolfe, Mrs. S. A., 

Dorchester. 



jSilk. 
I Photo. 

Earthen- 
i ware. 



Russell, Samuel H. I Steel. 

Lease. 
Letter. 



Pistols. 

Earthen- 
ware. 



James Pitts. Born in Boston, 1710, d. 1776. 
Son of John Pitts and Elizabeth Lindall. 
Graduated H. U. 1731, married Elizabeth 
Bowdoin, daughter of James Bowdoin (and 
sister of Gov. Bowdoin), 1732. Signed 
J. Blackburn, pinx. 1757. 

Elizabeth Bowdoin Pitts. Born Boston, 
April 25, 1717; married James Pitts, Oct. 
26, 1732; d. Boston, Oct. 20, 1771 . Black- 
burn, pinx. 1757. 

Susannah Lindall. Born 1660; died 1731, 
leaving a large property to James Pitts the 
Councillor. Joint Sniibert, pinx. 1728. 

Banner of the Shipwrights'' Association. 

The Old State House, 1801. After painting 
by sMarston. 

Ancient Punch Bowl. Black on cream, 
marked J. R. and picture of Washington on 
horseback, marked "Marshal of France," 
and other mottoes. 

Dress-sword, said to have been used in the 
Revolution. From the Glover family, 
North Ouincy. 

Lease of the " Bunch of Grapes Tavern," 
James Bowdoin to N. P. Russell, 18 10. 

Letter regarding the same from N. P. Russell 
to T. L. Winthrop, alluding to a balcony 
to be removed from said tavern. Endorse- 
ment of the owner, James Bowdoin, of his 
compliance to said removal. 

Pair of English Duelling Pistols, engraved 
and rifled. 

Liverpool Pitcher, black on cream. Arms of 
the Coopers' Guild. On the reverse, a 
cooper at work; "Prosperity attend the 
justice of our cause."' Letter F on front; 
from the Fernald family. 

Large Pitcher, with the ship Constitution in 
colors. On the reverse, in a medallion, 
Washington is pictured on a monument, 
which gives the date of his birth and 
death. At the left an eagle, at the right 
the figure of Liberty in tears, surmounted 
with the legend, " Washington in glorj', 
America in tears." An almost obliterated 
inscription in gilt denotes the former owners 
"Willaarde and Anne Claarke."' [Duplicates 
of the above two Pitcliers in the Burrage 
Loan Collection.] 

Liverpool Pitcher in lilue. State House, etc. 

Blue Plate. View of the old Ilotel at Nahant. 



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DESCRIPTION. 



Russell, Samuel H. Litho. 
" I Sword. 



Smith, Miss Eliza Litho. 

Stodcler, G. F., jMedal 

Somerville \ 



Turner, Job A. 



Webster, Mrs., 
West Nezuion. 



Map. 



I Wood. 



Webster at Marshfield. J. H. Biifford, Lith. 

French Dress-sword, engraved, with shark- 
skin scabbard, gold handle inlaid with sil- 
ver nuggets. 

Jerome V. C. Smith, Mayor of Boston, 1854-6. 
James Fisk Medal. Fisk supplied a full train 

of cars with food, etc., for the sufferers by 

the Chicago fire, Sept. 4, 187 1. 
Harrison Jubilee Medal. Bunker Hill, Sept. 

ID, 1S40. (Silver.) 
Coast of Massachusetts Bay, 173 1, showing 

the water nmning through Cape Cod near 

the present town of Chatham. 
Model of a Mast made by Isaac Harris, whose 

yard was near Winnisimmet Ferry, about 

iSoo. 



OFFICERS FOR 1887. 



Pre side lit. 

CURTIS GUILD. 



Curtis Guild. 
John T. Hassaw. 
Samuel H. Russell. 
Hamilton A. Hill. 



J directors. 



John Lathkop, 



Thomas C. Amouy. 
Joshua P. Bodfish. 
Wm. Wilkins Warren. 
Thomas J. Allen. 



Clerk and 'J'recisitrer. 
Wm. Clarence Bukrage. 



Samuel H. Russell. 
Samuel M. Quincy. 



Hamilton A. Hill. 



Hamilton A. Hill. 



Cfliinnittcc on the Ropdis. 

I George O. Carpenter. 

I Richard Briggs. 

John Lathrop. 



Committee on Printing. 

I John T. Hassam. 

The Clerk. 



Committee on Papers. 

I James F. Hunnewell. 

Edward G. Porter. 



Committee on Member sliip. 
J. C. Jones Brown. j Jeremiah Colburn. 

Wm. Wilkins Warren. I Edwin F. Waters. 

L. Foster Morse. 



Committee on the Library. 



J. L. Whitney. 
James F. Hunnewell 
Wm. C. Wlvslow. 



H. P. Curtis. 
F. W. Palfrey. 
The Clerk, ex officio. 



Auditors. 

Samuel H. Russell. | Thomas J. Allen. 

The i'RESiDENT, e.r offieio. 



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LIFE MEMBERS. 



Adams, Charles F. 
Ames, Oliver 
Appleton, Nathan 
Appleton, William S. 
Bartlett, Francis 
Bigelow, George B. 
Blake, Clarence J. 
Blake, Stanton 
Bodfish, Joshua P. 
Bradford, Martin L. 
Bradford, William B. 
Bradlee, J. Putnam 
Brooks, Peter Chardon 
Brooks, Shepherd 
Brown, John Coffin Jones 
Browne, Edward I. 
Burrage, William Clarence 
Carpenter, George O. 
Chapin, Nahum 
Chase, George B. 
Chase, Stephen 
Chase, Theodore 
Clark, C. E. 
Clay, Thomas H. 
Converse, Elisha S. 
Crowninshield, Benjamin W. 
Curtis, Henry Pelham 
Davis, J. Alba 
Dean, John Ward 
Deblois, Stephen Grant 
*Dupee, James A. 
Eaton, Walter D. 



Eliot, Samuel 
Emery, Francis F. 
Estes, Dana 
Fenno, J. Brooks 
Ferris, Mortimer C. 
Foster, John 
French, Frederick W. 
French, Jonathan 
Gould, Benj. A. 
Green, Samuel Abbott 
Guild, Curtis 
Guild, Curtis, Jr. 
Hall, Thomas B. 
Hartt, John F. 
Hassam, John T. 
Head, Charles 
Henshaw, Samuel 
*Homans, Charles D. 
James, George Abbot 
Jenks, Henry F. 
Jones, D. Wayland 
Kennard, Martin P. 
Ladd, Nathaniel W. 
Lambert, Thomas R. 
Lane, Jonathan A. 
Lawrence, Amory A. 
*Lawrence, Amos A. 
Loring, William Caleb 
Macdonald, Edward 
Mack, Thomas 
Manning, Francis H. 
Marshall, J. F. B. 



bo 



Minns. Tliomas 
Minot, William, Jr. 
Moseley. Alexander 
Nichols, Arthur H. 
Norcross, Crcnville H. 
Norwell, Henry 
O'Brien, Hugh (Hon. Mi:*m.) 
Paige, John C. 
Parker, Charles VV. 
Peabody, Charles B. 
Perry, Charles F. 
PfafF, Jacob 
Porter, Edward G. 
Richardson, I). Hebor 
Ripley, George 
Russell, Samuel H. 
Sears, J. Montgomery 
Shaw, Henry Southworth 
Shaw, Henry Southworth, Jr. 
Slafter, Edmund F. 
Slater, Andrew C. 
Stetson, Amos W. 



Storey, Joseph C. 
Thacher, Henry C. 
*Thorndike, Georgo Quincy 
Tucker, James C. 
Turner, Alfred R. 
Turner, Job A. 
Upton, George B. 
Ward, Francis Jackson 
Warren, William Wilkins 
Weld, Otis Everett 
Wheelwright, Andrew C. 
White, J. Gardner 
Whitmore, Charles J. 
Whitney, Henry Austin 
Willcutt, Levi L. 
Williams, Henry W. 
Winslow, William C. 
Winthrop, Robert C, Jr. 
Winthrop, Robert Mason 
Woodman, Cyrus 
Wool son, James A. 



6i 



MEMBERS. 



Abbott, JLclward A. 
Abbott, Josiah G. 
Adams, Waldo 
Allen, Samuel P. 
Alien, Stillman B. 
Allen, Thomas J. 
Allen, William H. 
Alley, John R. 
Ames, Oakes Angier 
Ames, Samuel T. 
Amory, Frederic 
Amory, Thomas C. 
Andrew, John F. 
Andrews, Robert Day 
Angell, Henry C. 
Appleton, William 
Atkinson, George 
Austin. Charles L. 
Austin, James W. 
Avery, Abraham 
Ayer, James 
Ayer, James B. 
Babo, Leopold 
Bailey, JosephT. 
Bailey. Lewis B. 
Baldwin, William H. 
Ballister, Joseph F. 
Barnes, Amos 
Beal, James H. 
Beal, Leander 
Beard, Alanson W. 
Beebe, J. Arthur 
Bemis, Francis T. 
Benedict, Washington G 
Bent, S. Arthur 
Bigelow, Abraham O. 
Bigelow. Samuel A. 



Billings, Robert C. 
Bishop, Robert R. 
Blakemore, John E. 
Blaney, Henry 
BoIIes, Matthew^ 
Bouve, Thomas T. 
Bowditch, Charles P. 
Bowditch, J. IngersoU 
Bowditch, Vincent Y. 
Bradish, Frank E. 
Bradlee, Caleb D. 
Bradlee, John T. 
Braman, G. T. W. 
Bremer, John L. 
Brewer, Cyms 
Brewer, J. P. 
Brewer, William D. 
Briggs, Richard 
Brimmer, Martin 
Brooks, Francis 
* Brooks, Henry C. 
Brooks, Phillips 
Brown, Alfred S. 
Brown. Atherton T. 
Brown, Buckminster 
Brown, James Wentworth 
Brown, Samuel N. 
Browne, C. Allen 
Browne, T. Quincy 
Bryant, Gridley J. F. 
Buftum, Charles 
BuUens, George S. 
Burdett, Horatio S. 
Burge, Lorenzo 
Burgess, James M. 
Burnham, T. O. H. P. 
Burrage, Alvah A. 



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Bush, J. Foster 
Butler, Sigourney 
Calef, Benjamin F. 
Candage, R. G. F. 
Candler, John W. 
Carpenter, Frank O. 
Carr, Sani"l, Jr. 
Can'uth, Charles 
Carter, Charles M. 
Carter, John W. 
Case, James B. 
Chamberlain, Mellen 
Chandler, Francis W. 
Chandler. Horace P. 
Child, Addison 
Childe, John Heally 
Clapp, Channing 
Clapp, Chas. M. 
*Clapp, Otis 
Clark, Albe C. 
Clark, Benj. C. 
Clark, Cyrus T. 
Clark, Joseph W. 
Clarke, Botsford R. 
Clarke, Geo. Lemist 
Clarke, James Freeman 
Clarke, Thomas W. 
Clifford, Samuel W. 
Clifford, Samuel W., Jr. 
Cochrane, Alexander 
Codman, John 
Codman. Ogden, Jr. 
Codman, William C. 
Colburn, Jeremiah 
Coolidge, Albert L. 
Coolidge, John T. 
Coolidge, John T., Jr. 
Cordner, John 
Cory, Chas. B. 
Getting, Chas. U. 
Crane, Joshua 
Crocker, George G. 
Crocker, Uriel 
Crosby, C. A. W. 
Cruft, Samuel B. 
Cupplcs, Joseph G. 



Curtis, Caleb A. 
Curtis, Charles F. 
Gushing. Thomas 
Cutter, Benj. F. 
Cutter, Watson G. 
Dalton, Charles H. 
Damrell, John S. 
Uanforth, Lsaac W. 
Daniell, Moses Grant 
Davis, James C. 
Davis, John William 
Deblois, George L. 
Denison, John N. 
Dexter, Morton 
Dexter, William S. 
Dickinson, M. F., Jr. 
Ditson, Oliver 
Dixon, Lewis S. 
Dodd, Henry W. 
Dodge, Theodore A. 
Dresser, Jacob A. 
Dunn, Edward H. 
Dwight, Edmund 
Dyer, Benjamin F. 
Eddy, Otis 
Edes, Henry H. 
Eliot, Christopher Rhodes 
Ellis, Rowland 
Endicott, Geo. Munroe 
P^ndicott, William, Jr. 
Eustis, W. Tracy 
Fabyan, Cieorge F. 
Fay, Joseph S. 
Fearing, Andrew C, Jr. 
Fitz, Eustace C. 
Flint, David B. 
Folsom, Albert A. 
Foote, Henry Wilder 
Forbes, J. Murray 
Forbes, Robert B. 
Forristall, George W. 
Freeland, James H. 
French, Benjamin 
French, S. Waldo 
French, Wm. A. 
Frink, Alden 



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Frost, Rufus S. 
Frothingham, O. B. 
Fuller, Charles E. 
Fuller, Henry H. 
Galloupe, Charles VV. 
Gardner, George A. 
*Gardner, John 
Gardner, John L. 
Gay, Edwin W. 
Gibbens, Joseph M. 
Gleason, Daniel A. 
Glidden, John M. 
Glidden, William T. 
Goddard, William 
Goff, Edward H. 
Goldthwait, Joel 
Goldthwait, John 
Gookin, Charles B. 
Gorham, James Lane 
Gray, Joseph H. 
Green, George H. 
Greenough, Francis B. 
Greenough, William W. 
Grover, William O. 
Guild, George K. 
*Guild, Henry 
Guild, Henr}' 
Hall, Edward R. 
Hall, John R. 
Hallowell, Richard P. 
Hamilton, H. F. 
Hamlen, Nathaniel P. 
Hammond, George W. 
Hapgood, Warren 
Harding, Geo. W. 
Harris, George W. 
Hart, Henry W. 
Hart, William T. 
Haskell, Wni. A. 
Haynes, Henry W. 
Hayward, George 
Heard, J. Theodore 
Hecht, Jacob H. 
Hemenway, Alfred 
Henchman, Nathaniel H. 
Herford, Brooke 



Hersey, Alfred H. 
Higginson, Waldo 
Hill, Clement Hugh 
Hill, Hamilton Andrews 
Hill, Henry Evelyth 
Hilton, William 
Hobbs, A. C. 
Hodgkins, William E. 
Hogg, John 
Hoitt, Alfred D. 
Holden, Joshua B. 
Holman, Charles H. 
Homans, George H. 
Hopkins, Geo. J. 
Hopkins, Sam'l B. 
Horton, William H. 
Houghton, Henry O. 
Houghton, Wm. S. 
Howe, George D. 
Howe, R. H. 
Hubbard, Charles E. 
Hubbard, James M. 
Hudson, John E. 
Hunnewell, H. H. 
Hunnewell, James F. 
*Huntoon, Daniel T. V. 
Hurd, Charles E. 
Hutchings, William Vincent 
lasigi, Joseph A. 
Inches, Charles 
Jeffries, John 
Jelly, George F. 
Jenks, Thomas L. 
Jenney, Bernard 
Johnson, Charles E. 
Johnson, Edward C. 
Johnson, Samuel 
Jones, Jerome 
Jones, Leonard A. 
Kendall, Charles S. 
Kennedy, Chas. A. 
Kennedy, George G. 
Kidder, Charles A. 
* Kidder, Henry P. 
Kidder, Nath'l Thayer 
Kinsley. Edw. W. 



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Knowles, Natlianiel 
Kurtz, Charles Carroll 
Ladd, Babson S. 
Lamb, George 
Lamb, Thomas 
Lamson, D. S. 
Langmaid, S. W. 
Lathrop, John 
Lawrence, Abbott 
Lee, William H. 
Lilly, Chaniiing 
Lincoln, Frederic W. 
Lincoln, Joseph B. 
Lincoln, Solomon 
Lincoln, Wm. H. 
Little, George W. 
Little, John M. 
Little, Samuel 
Lockwood, Rhodes 
Lombard, Geo. B. 
*Lothrop, Samuel K. 
Lothrop, Thornton K. 
Levering, Joseph S. 
Lowell, Edward J. 
Lowell, Francis C. 
Lyon, Henry 
Mackay, Robert C. 
Macleod, William A. 
Marvin, Wm. T. R. 
May, Frederic Goddard 
May, Frederick W. G. 
May, John Joseph 
May, Samuel 
Maynard, Edw. D. 
Mayo, Edward R. 
Means, James 
Means, William G. 
Metcalf, Henry B. 
Milliken, Ebenezer C. 
Mills, Henry F. 
Mills, William N. 
Miner, Geo. A. 
Minot, Francis 
Minot, J. Grafton 
Monks, Richard J. 
Moodv, Chas. E. 



Moore, Frederic H. 
Morison, John H. 
Morse, Henry A. 
Morse, John T. 
Morse, L. Foster 
Nash, Herbert 
Newman, W. H. H. 
Niles, Thomas 
Noble, John 
Nowell, Thomas S. 
Olmstead, John W. 
Osgood, Edward L. 
Page, F. W. 
Paine, Robert Treat, Jr 
Palfrey, Francis W. 
Palfrey, John C. 
Parker, Edgar 
Parker, Henry G. 
Parkman, Francis 
Park, Wm. D. 
Parsons, Albert S. 
* Parsons, Francis 
Patridge, Eugene E. 
Payne, James H. 
Peabody. O. W. 
Penniman, George 
Perkins, Augustus T. 
Perkins, Chas. B. 
*Perkins, Charles C. 
Perkins, James D. 
Perkins, Thomas H. 
Perkins, William 
Phillips, E. B. 
Phipps, Benjamin 
Pierce, George F. 
Pierce, Henry L. 
Pierce, Nathaniel W. 
Piper, William T. 
Porter, Ale.xander S. 
Porter, John W. 
Prang, Louis 
Pratt, Edward EUerton 
Pratt, John C. 
Pratt, John F. 
Pratt, Laban 
Preston, Jonathan 



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Preston, William G. 
Prince, Frederick O. 
Pulsifer, Royal M. 
Putnam, George F. 
Putnam, Henry W. 
(Duincy, George Henry 
Quincy, Samuel M. 
Reed, Henry R. 
Reed, James 
Rice, Alexander H. 
Rice, Henry A. 
Rice, John H. 
Richards, Henry C. 
Richardson, Augiistus 
Richardson, Frederic L. 
'■'Richardson, George C. 
Richardson, Joshua W. 
Richardson, Thomas O. 
Richardson, Spencer W. 
Ritchie, John, Jr. 
Robbins, George W. 
Robinson, Josiah S. 
Robinson, Nathan D. 
Roby, Warren Gould 
Rogers, Henry B. 
Rogers, John Kimball 
Ropes, John C. 
Rotch, William 
Ross, Alphonzo 
Russ, Augustus 
Rust, Nathaniel J. 
Rust, William A. 
Salisbury, D. Waldo 
Sampson, Charles E. 
Sampson, Edwin H. 
Sampson, O. H. 
Sargent, Geo. D. 
Sargent, Lucius M. 
Sawyer, Arthur W. 
Sawyer, Joseph 
Sawyer, Samuel E. 
Sawyer, Timothy T. 
Schouler, James 
Sears, Eben 
Sears, Knyvet W. 
Sears, Philip H. 



Shattuck, George O. 
Shaw, Henry L. 
Shillaber, William G. 
Slade, Denison Rogers 
Slade, Lucius 
Sleeper, Jacob 
Slocum, William H. 
Smith, Charles C. 
Smith, Elbridge 
Smith, Joseph W. 
Smith, Sam'l T. 
Smith, Wm. E. 
Snelling, (^eorge H. 
Snow, S. T. 
Souther, Henry 
Sowdon, A. J. C. 
Spaulding, Mahlon D. 
Spencer, Aaron W. 
Spragiie, Henry H. 
Standish, L. Miles 
Stanwood, James Rindge 
Stearns, Edward 
Stedman, George 
Stepiienson, H. M. 
Stevens, Benjamin F. 
Stickney, J. Henry 
Stone, Charles W. 
Stone, Henry 
Stowell, Alexander 
Strong, Edward A. 
Sullivan, Richard 
Suter, Hales W. 
Swan, William W. 
Talbot, L Tisdale 
Talbot, William H. 
Temple, Thomas F. 
Thayer, Edward F. 
Thorndike, S. Lothrop 
Thwing, Walter E. 
Tobey, Edward S. 
Tolman, Adams K. 
Torrey, Benjamin B. 
Trask, William B. 
* Trull, Ezra J. 
Tucker, George F. 
Tufts, Arthur W. 



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Vinal, Hammond Whiting 
Vose, J. Thomas 
Wadsworth, Alexander F. 
Wales, George W. 
Walley, Henshaw B. 
Warren, John Collins 
Warren, S. D. 
Waters, Edwin F. 
Weeks, Andrew G. 
Welch, Charles A. 
Weld, Aaron Davis, Jr. 
Weld, Moses W. 
Wells, Samuel 
Wentworth, Alonzo B. 
Wentworth, Arioch 
Weston, Thomas, Jr. 
Wheelwright, Edward 
Wheildon, William Wilder 
White, Charles (;. 
White, Charles T. 
Whitman, (George H. 
Whitman, Henry 
Whitmore. William H. 
Whitney, D. R. 



Whitney, Edward 
Whitney, James L. 
Whittemore, Henry 
Whitwell, Wm. S. 
Wilder, Charles W. 
Willard, Francis L. 
Willard, Robert 
Williams, Alexander 
Williams, A., Jr. 
Williams, Jacob L. 
Williams, Robert B. 
Williams, Wm. B. 
Wilmarth, Henry D. 
Wilson, Wm. Power 
Winchester, Thomas B. 
Winslow, Ei"ving 
Wolcott, J. Huntington 
Wood, Chas. G. 
Wood, William B. 
Woods, Henry 
Woodward, Arthur Stanley 
Woolley, William 
Worster, Jolin 
Young, Alexander 



BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 



ORGANIZED TO PROMOTE THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF SOSTOiV, 
AND THE PRESERVATION OF ITS ANTIQUITIES. 



BY L A'W S. 

I. 

OBJECTS. 

It shall be the duty of memljers, so far as it may be in their power, to 
carry out the objects of the Society, by collecting, by gift, loan, or purchase, 
books, manuscripts, and pictures, and by such other suitable means, as may 
from time to time seem expedient. 

II. 

MEMBERS. 

The members of the Bostonian Society shall be such persons, either 
resident or non-resident in noston, as shall, after having been proposed and 
accepted as candidates at any regular monthly meeting by the Directors, be 
elected by the votes of a majority of the members present and voting. 

III. 

HON'OKAKV AXl) CORRESPONDIXG MEMBERS. 

Honorary and Corresponding members shall be nominated by the Direc- 
tors, and shall be elected by ballot by two-thirds of the members present 
and voting. They may take pnrt in tlie meetings of the Society. Init shall 
not be entitled to vote. 

IV. 

AU.MISSIOX FEE AXD ASSESSMEXTS. 

Each member shall pay five dollars at the time of his admission, and five 
dollars each first of January afterwards, into the treasury of tlie Society tor 
its general purposes : but if any member shall neglect to pay his admission 
fee or annual assessment, for three months after the same is due, he shall 
be liable to forfeit his membership at any time when the Directors shall so 
order. 

The payment of the sum of twenty-five dollars in any one year by any 
member of the Society shall constitute him a Hfe member of the Society ; life 
members shall be free from assessments, and entitled to all the rights and 
privileges of annual members. The money received for such life member- 
ships shall constitute a fund, of which not more than twenty per cent, to- 
gether with the annual inconie, shall be spent in any one year. 



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V. 

CERTIFICATES. 

Certificates signed by the President and countersigned by the Treasurer^ 
shall be issued to all persons who have become life members of the Society. 

VI. 

MEETINGS. 

The annual meeting of the Society shall be held on the second Tuesday in 
January, and regular meetings shall be held on the second Tuesday of every 
month, excepting July, August, and September, at such time and place as 
the Directors shall appoint. Special meetings shall be called by the Clerk, 
under the instruction of the Directors. 

At all meetings ten members shall be a quorum for business. All Com- 
mittees shall be nominated by the Chair, unless otherwise ordered. 

Vli. 



The officers of the Society shall be nine Directors, a President, a Clerk, 
and a Treasurer. The Directors, Clerk and Treasurer, shall be chosen by 
ballot at the annual meeting in January, and shall hold office for one year, 
and until others are duly chosen and qualitied in their stead. 

The President shall be chosen by the Board of Directors, from their 
number at their first meeting after election, or at any adjournment thereof. 

The offices of Clerk and Treasurer may be held liy the same person. 

VIII. 

VACANCIES. 

Any vacancies in the Board of Directors, or the office of Clerk or Treasurer, 
may be filled for the remainder of the term at any regular meeting of the 
Society, by the votes of two-thirds of the members present and voting. 

In the absence of the Clerk at any meeting of the Society, a Clerk pro 
tempore shall be chosen. 

IX. 

NOM INATING C( )M Ai ITTEE . 

At the monthly meeting in December, a Nominating Committee of three 
persons shall be appointed, who shall report at the annual meeting a list of 
candidates for the places to be filled. 

X. 

PRESIDING OFFICER. 

The President, or in his absence, one of the Directors, shall preside at all 
meetings of the Society. In the absence of all these officers, a President 
pro tempore shall be chosen. 



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XI. 

DUTIES OF THE CLERK. 

The Clerk shall be sworn to the fiiithful discharge of his duties. 

He shall notify all meetings of the Society. He shall keep an exact record 
of all the proceedings of the Society at its meetings. 

He shall conduct the general correspondence of the Society, and place 
on file all letters received. 

He shall enter the names of members systematically in books kept for the 
purpose, and issue certificates of life membership. 

The Clerk shall have such charge of all property in the possession of the 
Society as may from time to time be delegated to him by the Board of 
Directors. 

He shall acknowledge each loan or gift that may be made to and accepted 
in behalf of the Society. 

XII. 

DUTIES OF TREASURER. 

The Treasurer shall collect all moneys due to the Society, and pay all bills 
against the Society, when approved by the Board of Directors. 

He shall keep a full account of receipts and expenditures in a book belong- 
ing to the Society, which shall always be open to the inspection of the 
Directors ; and at the annual meeting in January, he shall make a written 
report of all his doings for the year preceding. 

The Treasurer shall give bond in the sum of one hundred dollars, with 
one surety, for the faithful discharge of his duties. 

XIII. 

DUTIES AND POWERS OF DIRECTORS. 

The Directors shall superintend and conduct the prudential and executive 
business of the Society ; shall authorize all expenditures of money ; fix all 
salaries ; provide a common seal ; receive and act upon all resignations and 
forfeitures of membership, and see tiiat the By-Laws are duly complied 
with. 

The Directors shall have full power to comply with the terms of the lease 
of the rooms in the Old State House, made with the City of Boston, and to 
make all necessary rules and regulations required in the premises. 

They shall annually, in the month of April, make a careful comparison of 
the articles in the possession of the Society with the list to be returned to 
the City of Boston under the terms of the lease, and certify to its correctness. 

They shall make a report of their doings at the annual meeting of the 
Society. 

The Directors may, from time to time, appoint such sub-committees as 
they deem expedient. 

In case of any vacancy in the ofiice of Clerk or Treasurer, they shall have 
power to choose a Clerk or Treasurer j!>r^ te7npore till the next meeting of 
the Society. 



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XIV. 

MEETINGS OF DIRECTORS. 

Regular meetings of the Directors shall be held on the day previous to 
the regular meetings of the Society, at an hour to be fixed by the President; 
special meetings of the Directors shall be held in such manner as they may 
appoint ; and a maiorit\' shall constitute a quorum for business. 

XV. 

FINANCE COMMITTEE. 

The President shall annually, in the month of January, appoint two 
Directors, who. with the President, shall constitute the Committee of 
Finance, to examine, from time to time, the books and accounts of the 
Treasurer; to audit his accounts at the close of the year, and to report upon 
the expediency of proposed expenditures of money. 

XVI. 

STANDING COMMITTEES. 

The President shall annually, in the month of January, appoint four 
standing committees as follows : — 

Cojiunittee on the Rooms. 

A committee of seven members, to be styled the Committee on the Rooms, 
of which the President and Clerk of the Society shall be members ex officio, 
who shall have charge of all the arrangements of the Rooms, (except books, 
manuscripts, and other objects appropriate to the Library,) offered as gifts 
or loans ; the hanging of pictures, and tlie general aiTangement of the 
Society's collections in their department. 

Com mi t tec on Papers. 

A committee of three members, to be styled the Committee on Papers, 
who shall have charge of the subject of papers to be read, or other exercises 
of a like nature, at the monthly meetings of the Society. 

('ojiD/tittee 0)1 Membership . 

A committee of live or more members, to be styled the Committee on 
Membership, whose duty it shall be to give information in relation to the 
purposes of the Society, and increase its membership. 

Conimittee on the Library. 

A committee of five members, to be styled the Committee on the 
Librar}', who shall have charge of all the arrangements of the Library, 
including the acceptance or rejection of all books, manuscripts and other 
objects appropriate to the Library, offered as gifts or loans, and the general 
arrangement of the Society's collections in their department. 



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These four committees shall perform the duties above set forth, under the 
general supervision of the Directors. 

Vacancies, which may occur in any of these committees during their term 
of service, shall be filled by the President. 

XVII. 

AMENDMENTS TO BY-LAWS. 

Amendments to the By-Laws may be made, at any annual meeting, by 
the vote of two-thirds of the members present and voting. They may also 
be made by the like vote at any regular meeting, provided notice of the same 
be contained in a call for such meeting issued by the Clerk, and sent to 
every member. 




PReeEEDINSS 



BOSrONIAN seeiEtY 



Special Meeting, May 24, 1887, 



r-L:jj^ 



PROSPECTUS. 



Original contributions relating to the history of Boston, as read 
before the Society, will be, from time to time, published; eaclj 
monograph will be complete in itself, and will also be paged 
continuously in the series for binding. 

Members of the Association will receive the publications as 
soon as they are issued. Other persons may obtain them, each 
at its retail price, on application to the Society, or Damrell, 
Upham & Co. 



EXTRACT FROM BY-LAWS, ARTICLE IV. 

ADMISSION FEE AND ASSESSMENTS. 

Each member shall pay five dollars at the time of his admission, and five 
dollars each first of January afterwards, into the treasury of the Society for 
its general ]iurposes ; but if any member shall neglect to pay Jiis acbnission 
fee, or annual assessment, for three months after the same is due, he shall be 
liable to forfeit his membership at any time when the Directors shall so order. 

The payment of the sum of twenty-five dollars in any one year by any member 
of the Society shall constitute him a life member of the Society; life merafvers 
shall be free from assessments, and entitled to all the rights and privileges of 
annual members. The money received for such life memberships shall con- 
stitute a fund, of which not more than twenty per cent, together with the annual 
income shall be spent in any one year. 



PROCEEDINGS 



BOSTONIAN SOCIETY 



EULOGY 



SAMUEL MILLER OUINCY 



SAMUEL ARTHUR BENT 



MAY 24, 1887 




B O S T O N 
OLD STATE HOUSE 

1887. 



SAMUEL MILLER QUINCY 



PROCEEDINGS 



The Old State House, May 24, 1887. 

A special meeting of the Bostonian Society was held in 
the Council Chamber, this day, at three o'clock, P. M. The 
President, Mr. Curtis Guild, called the ladies and gentlemen 
present to order, and said : — 

"The Bostonian Society and its friends have been called 
together to-day to pay a tribute to the memory of one whom 
the Society esteemed, not only as a fellow-member, but as a 
citizen, a patriot and a man. It was eminently fitting that 
the germ of this Society, the Antiquarian Club, having for its 
object the promotion of the study of the history of Boston and 
the preservation of its antiquities, should have as its first 
President one whose family name is identified with some of 
the brightest pages of Boston's past history. A graduate of 
Harvard University, an ardent lover of Boston and her insti- 
tutions, a representative in her City Councils, a good and 
worthy citizen, and with ready patriotism offering his valuable 
services and his life to his country in her hour of need, Samuel 
Miller Ouincy has not only proved a worthy representative 
of a name honored and revered in this Commonwealth, but 
he has shown that he possessed those characteristics of mind 



and heart that everywhere command admiration and respect. 
Animated with this feeling, this Society has felt that the 
death of such a man should be marked by more than mere 
passing- mention, and has therefore invited a gentleman amply 
qualified to perform the duty, to present in a fitting manner 
a record of our late fellow-member's life, and those traits of 
character that endeared him to all who enjoyed his friendship 
or were honored with his acquaintance. 

" Before inviting you to listen to this address, I will ask 
the committee appointed to draft resolutions on the death of 
General Samuel Miller Ouincy, f<:)r their report." 

The Rev. Joshua P. Bodfish, in responding, invited atten- 
tion to the beautiful crayon portrait of the General by Otto 
Grundmann, appropriately decorated with American flags ; to 
the painting by Bage of Mayor Josiah Ouincy, Jr., the father 
of General Quincy ; to Josiah Ouincy, the second mayor of 
Boston (a crayon by Furness), his grandfather ; and lastly to 
the great-grandfather, Josiah Ouincy (a painting by Gilbert 
Stuart), who defended in this Council Chamber the British 
troops who took part in the so-called Boston Massacre. Thus 
the whole family looked down from the walls to acquiesce in 
the words of eulogy on the first President of the Boston 
Antiquarian Club. 

Mr. Bodfish then presented the following resolutions, which 
were adopted by a rising vote : — 

Whereas, It hath pleased our Pleavenly Father to call to 
himself General Samuel Miller Ouincy, formerly Secretary of 
this Society, and first President of the Antiquarian Club ; 

Resolved, That the Bostonian Society sincerely mourns the 
loss of one who proved himself a most zealous and efficient 
officer of the Society, whose services at the time of its organ- 
ization were invaluable, and to whose labors it is indebted in 
a great measure for the gratifying success that has attended 
its work. 

Resolved, That in common with our fellow citizens, we 
desire to honor the memory of Genci"al (Juincy as the true 



patriot, which he proved himself by his gallant services in 
the hour of his country's need, and also a most worthy 
gentleman and friend, and the worthy bearer of an honored 
name. 

Resolved, That these resolutions be recorded on the books 
of the Society, and a copy of the same be forwarded to the 
bereaved family. 

(Signed,) Joshua P. Bodfish, 

Samuel H. Russell, 
Hamilton A. Hill, 

Committee. 

The President then said that those present needed no in- 
troduction to a talented friend of the late General Quincy, 
and that they would take pleasure in listening to Mr. Samuel 
Arthur Bent, a fellow-member of the Society. 

At the close of Mr. Bent's oration, a vote of thanks was 
unanimously given to him for his interesting address, and it 
was also voted that the same should be printed. 

William Clarence Burrage, 

Clerk. 



EULOGY 



Mr. President: — One of the objects of this Society, as de- 
clared in the By-Laws, is "to promote the study of the history 
of Boston." To address the members of this association in 
commemoration of the late Samuel Miller Quincy is an un- 
dertaking immediately within the scope of our Constitution, 
for, although he left us but yesterday, he already belongs to, 
and is a part of, historic Boston. The worthy inheritor of a 
distinguished name, he gave it the fresh lustre of martial 
achievement, and then entwined the soldier's laurel with the 
scholar's bay. That we meet here in a corporate capacity is 
largely due to his disinterested civic patriotism, and these 
memorials of the past which we have gathered and hold in 
trust for the community are mute orators, whose silence is 
more eloqiient of the dead than are any words of mine. In- 
troduced, however, to this organization at his invitation, and 
sympathizing with the purpose which unites us, I accept the 
task of recalling the salient features of his career, in a hall the 
walls of which once echoed the eloquence of his great ances- 
tor, — "dead ere his prime" — and in which memorials of 
his family surround us like the ancestral statues which the 
Romans bore in the funeral processions of their heroes. If I 
have read aright the history of our late associate, two instincts 
were strongly developed in him which are rarely united in the 
same person, the military and the antiquarian, and it is for 
the purpose of suggesting a lesson of patriotic duty as soldier 
and scholar, that I ask your attention. In this filial act of 
commemoration of one of its founders, this Society properly 
invites the presence, not only of his relatives, but of his gal- 
lant companions in arms, in whose congenial intercourse he 



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forgot the hardships of war, and in charge of whose tender 
ministrations he was laid to rest. 

The early life of General Quincy was like that of many a 
Boston boy. Born in 1832, he was prepared for college at a 
private school, and graduated at Harvard University in 1852. 
To none of his contemporaries was the prospect of life fairer 
at this moment than to him. He had graduated at a college 
over which his grandfather had presided, who was closing a 
career of usefulness which this city is proud to remember. 
Upon his father had worthily fallen the unspotted mantle of 
municipal authority. Under the roofs of both, the refined cul- 
ture of Boston met whatever was most distinguished or illus- 
trious from abroad. With such examples to stir his youthful 
ambition, he entered upon the study of the law with one of its 
ablest masters, now bending under the weight of years, but 
of undimmed intellect, who has said that he never had a more 
faithful or promising student than Quincy. He was admitted 
to practice in 1855.^ 

He had already joined the Independent Corps of Cadets, 
then known as the Divisionary Corps of Cadets. To this or- 
ganization, then as always composed of " the flower of Bos- 
ton's youth," and worthy to be reckoned among the "institu- 
tions" in which the city takes a maternal pride, Quincy ever 
maintained an affectionate loyalty. ^ It had been his military 
alma mater, in that it had prepared him for the real struggle 
of the Civil War, and it is no exaggeration to say that he 
would have preferred to command the Cadets than to accept 
their escort as Governor of the Commonwealth. Let me here 
anticipate mention of some later events, by quoting the words 
of the present Commander of the Corps concerning Quincy's 



1 The first volume of " Massachusetts Reports," called " Quincy's Reports," 
was edited by Samuel M. Quincy, and was published in 1S65; it contains cases 
from the manuscripts of Josiah Quincy, Jr., (1744-75) ; Mr. Quincy also edited 
the "Law Reporter" with John Lowell, for the years 1859-60. 

2 The dates of General Quincy's connection with the Cadets have kindly been 
furnished by Captain Charles E. Stevens : Joined, Dec. i, 1853 ; appointed color- 
sergeant. May 3, 1854 to June 19, 1855 ; elected first lieutenant (in command of a 
company), Aug. 26, 1858; resigned to enter the 2d Mass. Infantry, May, 1861 ; 
rejoined, Dec. 31, 1875, ^"<^ served three years; again rejoined, Jan. 30, 1879, 
and served one year. 



connection with it, not merely as of historic interest, but of 
practical example to the youth of Boston : 

" He was warmly interested in the corps, and never failed 
at all times to give proofs of his interest. For many years 
after the war he was not only enrolled as a private in one of 
the companies, but he did active duty. It was often the sub- 
ject of remark, that a man who had held a commission in the 
field as Colonel of one of the United States regiments should 
be willing to go through the drudgery of a private's work in 
the ranks of the militia. Yet such was the case of General 
Ouincy, and he did the work because he conscientiously be- 
lieved it his duty to do it. I have often talked with him on 
this subject. His idea was that every Boston gentleman was 
bound to give a certain amount of time and effort to service 
with the Corps of Cadets. He became very impatient when 
he saw scores of young fellows unable to grasp the high 
motive that led him to think as he did. We had also frequent 
talks on the methods by which the corps was conducted, and 
he never made a suggestion that did not receive respectful 
attention. 

" But perhaps the greatest service he ever did the corps was 
one that he probably never gave a thought to, so far as it af- 
fected the battalion. I mean the little book he wrote as a 
Colonel in the United States army for the use of recruits in 
his regiment. He called it, I believe, a Manual of Camp and 
Garrison Duty. So far as I have ever seen any manual relat- 
ing to such duty, it is the best. Since General Quincy wrote 
it, of course it has become obsolete in some details, but it 
still remains the model for all such manuals ; and, with a few 
alterations to suit the tactical changes and changes of army 
custom, it now forms the basis of the chapter on similar duties 
in the Massachusetts Regulations. These regulations were 
prepared fifteen years after General Ouincy wrote his little 
book, but the Corps of Cadets had then used the book for sev- 
eral years in the guise of standing orders for camp." 

It is a strange illustration of tonponi viutantur, that the 
man who was destined to command two regiments of United 
States colored troops in a war to support the Constitution and 
the laws carried the flag as color-sergeant of the Cadets dur- 



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ing the three days that they were ordered out at the time of 
the capture and rendition of Anthony Burns in 1854. It was, 
doubtless, a disagreeable duty, but when the Rebellion broke 
out, it was seen that there was a virtue in obedience to the 
Constitution and the laws. 

The outbreak of the Rebellion found Ouincy, therefore, 
ready. Like the one hundred and fifty men whom the Cadets 
had trained to active service in the field, he was no raw re- 
cruit, but a soldier, ready to obey, iit to command. His appli- 
cation for assignment to duty was made May 2, 1861, and on 
the 20th of that month he was aj:)pointed by Colonel Gordon 
Captain of Co. E. 2d Mass. Infantry, then encamped at Brook 
]'\arm, in West Roxbury. He was obliged, however, to lay 
aside the functions of a legislator in order to accept the com- 
mission of an officer. On the day when Lincoln was first 
elected to the Presidency of the United States, Ouincy had 
been chosen a member of the Lower House of the General 
Court, representing in part the ward which then contained 
this building, Faneuil Hall and the Old South Church. ^ 

The promotion from first lieutenant to captain was only a 
technical one, for Ouincy had already commanded a company, 
and the tactical skill which he had shown in the militia served 
him in good stead in preparing his company for the sterner 
duties of war. First assigned to General Patterson's command 
in the valley of the Shenandoah, which was afterward assumed 
by General Banks, the regiment received its baptism of fire 
during the retreat of May, 1862, and took part in the battle 
of Cedar Mountain in August of that year, as part of the army 
of Virginia under command of General Pope. 

In this action, so disastrous to the regiment but so fortu- 
nate for its reputation for gallantry, through which so many 
of its bravest officers and men entered the Valhalla of heroes, 
Captain Ouincy was wounded in two places and taken pris- 
oner. The wound in the foot, which was a permanent disa- 

I The dates of General Quincy's commissions, etc., in the 2d Mass. Regiment 
arc: Captain, May 24, 1S61 ; Major, Sept. 17, 1S62 ; Colonel, Nov. 9, 1S62; battle 
of Cedar Mountain, Aug. 9, 1862; rejoined the regiment, March 6, 1863; re- 
signed after battle of Chancellorsville, May, 1S63; l^revet Brig.-General, March 
13, 1865. 



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bility, brought him to the ground, and he was led off the field 
and laid among a mass of wounded soldiers. He remained 
there all night and the next day, but was finally carried to the 
rebel hospital, and from there by rail to Staunton. While in 
the hospital it was with the utmost difficulty that he saved 
his leg from amputation. There was more service in it still, 
and his military career had only just begun. 

Arriving at Staunton he found in his blouse pocket, "after 
acute physical suffering had in a measure," as he says, "given 
place to the prisoner's worst enemy, the leaden vacuity of 
ennui," a little almanac and diary for 1862, with half a lead 
pencil. With these he succeeded in keeping a journal of 
daily events with his reflections thereon, during the whole 
period of his captivity, the last entry being comprised in the 
words, printed later in all the glory of capital letters, "A 
FREE MAN AT Willard's." This diary was read at a reunion 
of officers in Boston, May 11, 1877, and printed for private 
distribution. 

" These jottings," as he calls them, were almost his only 
resource, " to pass away the leaden hours. With no com- 
panion," he says, " to whom I can open my soul, I must 
soliloc|uize, if only to convince myself that I have not yet 
sunk to the level of my surroundings." Under date of Sep- 
tember 20 he wrote : " This, in my opinion, is for the country 
the very moment of convulsion and travail, out of which some 
new state of things, — the commencement of some new era, 
— for better or for worse, will surely come. But at this 
critical moment to be walled up alive, where only faint 
echoes and uncertain sounds from the great fields meet us, — 
the fields where our fellow-soldiers arc playing out the great 
game of the age, — is a chance of war, and nothing to com- 
plain of while we still live. A great battle has been fought 
in Maryland (Antietam), and, although they make it out that 
we were worsted, yet from signs and tokens we draw our own 
inferences." 

On the 28th he heard of the death of Major Wilder Dwight, 
after a report that Pope's officers were to be paroled, and so 
he writes : " Away with visions of home and ease ! Wilder 
Dwight has been killed, and I am major, I suppose. . 



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Now to play the man, and be prepared to go to the majority, 
in either sense, when God's will is." A rebel soldier, just 
leaving for his regiment, shakes hands all round with the 
prisoners, who enjoin him to take care of himself, and Ouincy 
writes : " I have experienced from rebel privates almost uni- 
form kindness, good fellowship, camaraderie ; they treat one 
as a fellow-soldier. All the insult, all the bitterness and ill- 
treatment have come from officers and citizens in high positions 
in society, and from women." 

In October the prisoners were granted the liberty of the 
yard, by virtue of a parole which Ouincy wrote and had 
signed and sent down. He was the first, he said afterward, 
to test the document's efficacy, "for we could hardly believe 
that it would really pass us out. The guard stopped me, of 
course, called the corporal, and finally decided that it was a 
genuine thing ; and I hobbled painfully down four steep 
flights and out, looked up and saw the rest all crowding to 
the window, and waving hands and hats, to see us actually 
emerge, like a rat, from the trap which had held us through 
long weary months. I find," he wrote in the diary, "that the 
art of crutch progression is quite a science, and has its out- 
side edges and its backward rolls, etc., which are not to be 
learned without much practice and balancing. Up and down 
stairs with ease, confidence, and grace, is somewhat of an 
attainment." 

In October, Ouincy and other prisoners were removed to 
Libby prison at Richmond. It had been reported that, by 
special orders of Jefferson Davis, none of Pope's officers, cap- 
tured at Cedar Mountain, were to be treated as prisoners of 
war or paroled, but kept as hostages to be hanged from time 
to time in retaliation for the execution of guerillas, threatened 
by Pope. But Ouincy had seen a Richmond paper with an 
official list of prisoners paroled from the Libby, among whom 
were several of Pope's officers, and he, therefore, claimed his 
rights as a prisoner of war ; and, on behalf of himself and all 
who were able to travel, he demanded to be sent to Rich- 
mond, to take his turn for parole or exchange. His claim 
was allowed, and they were ordered to be ready to depart at 
half-past four the next morning. " There wasn't much sleep 



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in No. 7 that night," he writes, "and early next morning we 
were off. At 2 A. JM., (the following day) we arrived, where 
I now write, at the Libby prison, being received with the once 
familiar cry of 'Corporal of the Guard. Post No. i.' The 
corporal came and let us in. The officer, cross and sleepy, 
sent us to the hospital department, up three flights — an 
immense room in a large tobacco warehouse, lighted with a 
single dip, which only made darkness visible. A ragged 
young nurse, with his hair on end, welcomed us to the scene 
of despair. We were put on cots of sacking, with nothing 
under or over us, and shivered ourselves into oblivion. The 
next morning, the familiar notes of reveille on the fife, accom- 
panied by the bass and snare-drum of the side-show, brought 
us again to consciousness. I was about to put my head out 
of the window, but was forcibly informed that I'd better not 
unless I wanted it shot off. This day, a party went off which 
we had hoped to join, but were disappointed." 

On Sunday, however, Ouincy was paroled, and he and his 
companions, "a wretched crew," were packed into coaches 
and wagons, and jolted a miserable fifteen miles to the flag- 
of-truce boat, whence he reached Washington, drew his pay, 
and replaced his ragged blouse, bullet-pierced trousers, and 
torn Confederate cap ("given me on the field to replace my 
broad-brimmed felt, which a Georgia gentleman fancied"), by 
the jauntiest uniform he could find, and was so transformed 
that the captain of the boat which had brought him to Wash- 
ington denied having seen him before, until convinced by his 
crutches and wounded foot. 

From the day of Cedar Mountain through all the subse- 
quent years of his existence, he was never again a well man. 
Of him, as of many another, it may be said that he gave his 
life for his country as truly as if he had fallen in the imminent 
deadly breach at Chancellorsville, or had wasted miserably 
away in the prison-pen of Richmond. Although commis- 
sioned colonel of his regiment in 1862, Ouincy did not take 
command until March, 1863. 

It was during his furlough, spent in partial recovery from 
w^ounds and imprisonment, that I remember seeing him, then 
a stranger to me, painfully limping on his crutches down Park 



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street, one of those gaunt figures not unfamiliar in our North- 
ern cities, ahiiost the only visible indication that elsewhere in 
our borders War was cutting the Gordian knot which Peace 
had failed to unloose. He might have remained at home, and 
posed successfully as "the broken soldier, kindly bade to 
stay ; " but with the same sense of duty which sent him and 
thousands like him to the war, his keen spirit chafed under 
the delay of a tedious cure, and so, when in March he assumed 
command of his regiment, he had not wholly recovered ; but 
the drills and inspections of that winter went on, which placed 
the 2d Mass. Infantry among the eleven regiments in the en- 
tire army found worthy, after a special examination, of high 
commendation. That the Second did its dut}' at Chancellors- 
ville in May, losing thirty-three /r/- av//. of its effective force, 
is part of its history, but here Ouincy's connection with it 
ceased. 

Originally of slender form and delicate organization, his in- 
domitable spirit had hitherto carried him superior to physical 
weakness, but he had reached the limit of successful endur- 
ance, and he turned reluctantly from active service to another 
period of recuperation, in the hope that later he might be 
assigned to some other field of patriotic endeavor. Accord- 
ingly, having found after the march of his regiment to 
Stafford Court House, subsequent to the battle, that he had 
entirely overestimated his strength, and unwilling to retain a 
position the duties of which he could not fully discharge, he 
resigned his commission, and in October of that year was 
appointed lieutenant-colonel of the 73d United States Colored 
Infantry, and detailed as acting assistant inspector-general on 
the staff of General Andrews, formerly of the 2d Mass. Regi- 
ment, who, after the reduction of Port Hudson, was assigned 
to the organization of Corps d'Afrjquc, in the Department of 
the Gulf. 1 It was a congenial position for Colonel Quincy, 

I The following are some approximate dates of General Quincy's commissions 
and appointments in the Department of the Gulf: Lieut.-Colonel 73d U. S. Col. 
Infantry, Oct., 1S63; Colonel, Fall of 1864; Colonel of the 96th and Sist Regi- 
ments from March 13, 1S65, to Nov. 30, 1866, when he was mustered out. Acting 
Mayor of New Orleans, May 5, to June, 1S65 ; member of the Claims Commis- 
sion to Sept., 1866. 



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for his scholastic as well as military education and aptitudes 
enabled him to compile some technical works on drill and 
discipline, already alluded to, which received the commenda- 
tion of his superior officers, and were of such assistance to 
the junior officers of the garrison that they gained for it the 
appellation of "the West Point of the Mississippi." 

In the fall of 1864 he was promoted to the colonelcy of the 
regiment, and years afterward he made a touching reference 
to his connection with it. In a speech in the Massachusetts 
House of Representatives, December 18, 1872, on the famous 
resolution censuring Sumner's proposition in the U. S. Sen- 
ate, — "that the names of battles with our fellow-citizens 
shall not be continued in the army register or placed upon the 
regimental colors of the United States," General Quincy 
opposed the passage of the resolution, because he did not 
believe that it was the province of the Legislature to rebuke 
or censure the representatives at Washington ; but as a citi- 
zen and soldier, he did not think that the time had arrived to 
wipe out the names, not of victories, but, of actions in which 
the United States troops had been engaged, and feeling that 
Mr. Sumner's proposition was, therefore, premature, he said: 
"At one time during the war I was colonel of the 73d U. S. 
Colored Infantry, a regiment, which, under another comman- 
der, had highly distinguished itself in the first bloody repulse 
at Port Hudson. It lost heavily; it was mentioned with high 
praise by the commanding general ; but yet, when a year 
afterward a departmental order was issued, specifying the regi- 
ments entitled to inscribe 'Port Hudson' on their colors, 
the two negro regiments were quietly ignored. I addressed a 
petition at once to the Secretary of War, at Washington, 
stating the case, and closing by a mention of the fact, that 
whatever might be the fate of the petition, yet that the colors 
of my regiment bore one honorable mark which never should 
be effaced, — the broad, deep stain of the life-blood of the 
color-sergeant who fell in the unsuccessful charge, and relin- 
quished his flag only with his life. I received in consequence 
direct authority, from the Adjutant-General at Washington, 
to inscribe 'Port Hudson' upon the blood-stained flag of the 
73d." 



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Colonel Ouincy was president of an examining board for 
officers of colored troops at Baton Rouge, and later at New 
Orleans. As colonel of the 96th, and then, by consolidation, 
of the 8 1st U. S. Colored Infantry, in which Greely, afterward 
of Arctic fame, was an officer, he commanded the regiment 
during the riot in New Orleans, in July, 1866, when the rebel 
element attacked the members of the Constitutional Conven- 
tion, and in which several white and black Unionists lost 
their lives. 

His letters give a pleasing picture of his life in New 
Orleans. His love of foreign languages took him into a 
French family, and he gave his spare time to the study of 
French and German. There are frequent calls for German 
books, and even mention of that invariable adjunct of a young 
man's life in a foreign family, the landlady's pretty daughter. 
He humorously announces in one letter his appointment as 
acting mayor of New Orleans, saying that General Banks had 
that day executed "a coitp d'etat, by which the civil mayor 
has been decapitated and I am installed vice-regent in his 
place. Half the city is delighted — the other half furious, 
. . . but if it pleases you to have another ' Mayor Ouincy ' 
in the family, soyas-cii licnrciix'' 

The assassination of Lincoln in the previous April wrung 
from him a cry of anguish. When the news came the shops 
were closed without orders, " and it seemed as if the city had 
received a mortal blow, and the very sunshine looked mourn- 
ful as it struck down the deserted and hushed streets. Our 
negro troops will feel as if they had lost their father in the 
President. In the recent assault on Fort Blakely they led 
the charge, and when they went over the parapet the enemy in 
many instances fell on their knees, expecting Fort Pillow 
treatment, but by the aid of their excellent discipline the 
troops were restrained. If the murder of the President had 
then taken place and been known, they would have charged 
with Lear's furious cry of ' Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill ! ' and nothing 
human could then have saved the garrison when the black 
faces with gleaming eyes came swarming over their works." 

In August he is looking forward to a return at skating-time, 
and says that his lameness is all gone, "and only an occasional 



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twinge reminds me of that bullet that went crashing through 
the small bones one Saturday night about sundown, in a sort 
of lurid fog of battle, in which gunpowder and twilight made 
an infernal denii-jonr, ' when the ranks were rolled in vapor, 
and the winds were laid with sound.' " He was, however, to 
remain in the city another year to serve as chairman of the 
Claims Commission to adjust differences between citizens 
and the national government. This varied and honorable 
career was rewarded with the brevet of Brigadier-General, 
which he received March 13, 1865, "for gallant and meritori- 
ous services during the War." 

After leaving the army. General Ouincy spent a year and a 
half in Europe, rallying in a milder climate than ours his scat- 
tered forces, pursuing with zest his favorite studies, and stor- 
ing his mind with those pictures and images of the past, of 
which he was to make frequent use in literary exercise. Shat- 
tered in health, and, therefore, unable to engage with persist- 
ency in a laborious profession, he might have withdrawn into 
the recesses of a library, and spent the succeeding years in 
congenial study. But he was still a man ; he had, on a wider 
field, shown himself an American ; he was now to adapt to 
himself the words of the Latin dramatist and to declare : " I 
am a Bostonian, and nothing that relates to Jicr is foreign to 
vie!' He was again called to the Legislature from the same 
ward which had once before entrusted her interests to his 
keeping, and twice the electors of the entire city (in 1873 and 
1875) chose him to the honorable office of alderman of 
Boston. We may be sure that in these positions he gave a 
conscientious attention to the subject-matter of legislation, 
and that his opinions were formed upon independent investiga- 
tion and an unbiased judgment. But for that independence, 
not so much of party shackles as of personal prejudice and 
pecuniary interest, his political career might have been of 
longer duration but of less honor. He had an honest ambition 
to be of use to his fellow-citizens in whatever channels that 
usefulness might be directed. He had the ambition but not 
the arts of the politician, and a candor of thought and speech 
which is often incompatible with political popularity. So 
much the worse for his success, so much the better for his 



memory ! Alluding to the exemption of an ancient military 
organization from jury duty, he did not hesitate to say to a 
committee of the Board of Aldermen, "There are among us 
certain peculiar Bostonian institutions which are held in a 
manner sacred, and to whose defects or doubtful influence our 
eyes must be resolutely closed." 

But his true field of activity lay elsewhere. Had he been 
merely a popular alderman we should not meet to-day to de- 
plore his loss and raise a tribute to his memory. There is an 
unofficial office borne by the alert, circumspect, loyal, learned 
citizen of our municipal commonwealth, which depends upon 
the fickle smile of no constituency, is bought by no bargains, 
is maintained by no truckling, is harassed by no fear of defeat, 
is the victim of no "deals" or combinations. Turning from 
the debasing wrangles of political cabals, we shall find that 
our friend was for many years an alderman at large, an un- 
elected conservator of old Boston, of whose very trees and 
stones he felt himself to be a part. Turn over the pages of 
our daily newspapers for the last twenty years, and whenever 
any question of local interest has agitated the community, 
any destruction of landmarks has been threatened, any pre- 
servation of monuments has been suggested, you will find his 
familiar initials appended to stirring appeals, to ingenious 
satire, to eloquent denunciation. On the question of erecting 
a new court-house some one mentioned the Common as an 
available site, and Quincy replied: "This spot of verdure 
and foliage in the heart of your city is vacant of buildings 
for the simple reason that it does not belong to trade to 
pile bricks and granite on in order to make rich men richer ; 
nor can it compare with your aristocratic park out of town, 
over which Mr. and Mrs. Shoddy roll in their carriage : but 
it is the people's Common, in which the millionaire has no 
advantage over the poorest citizen, and which has been 
enjoyed by the ancestors of both ever since the days of 
the parson who used to ride his brindled bull over it, two 
centuries ago. ^ The people were driven off for a time when 

I William Blaxton. P''ide " Collections of the Bostonian Society," Vol. L, 
No. I, p. 23. 



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Gage's regiments camped there, but after Mr. Washington 
had made the town a little too hot for the red-coats to stay 
any longer, the people and their cows came back, and since 
then upon this spot which the red-coats could not hold, 
even the legions of trade and the almighty dollar have as yet 
made no impression." 

It was natural that a man who thought and spoke thus on 
the preservation of Boston's land-marks and public places 
should join those who felt as he did, and combine with them 
for mutual support. If Quincy did not suggest the formation 
of our parent club he was one of its most vigorous advocates, 
and the first meeting of those interested in its formation was 
held in his office, near the close of May, 1879. 

From that meeting sprang the Boston Antiquarian Club, 
of the preliminary meetings of which General Ouincy was 
chairman, until, on its final organization, he was elected 
President. The object of the club was declared in the con- 
stitution to be "to promote the knowledge of the history of 
Boston, by the collection of books, manuscripts, and pictures, 
and by other suitable means." It was intended to draw to a 
focus the Bostonian's love of his city, and to defend her 
physical integrity as others might combine to preserve intact 
her political organism. 

At the first annual meeting, January 13, 1880, the President, 
on taking the chair, after modestly suggesting that others 
had a greater right to the honor than himself, but that no one 
could receive it with a deeper conviction of the real value, 
both to present and to future generations, of the work pro- 
posed by it, said that " it is only by a study of the past and of 
its lessons that we can assure ourselves that we are making 
true and not false progress. And in this field of the past the 
antiquarian and the historian work together — the one gather- 
ing, collecting, and preserving the materials for the other's 
labor. But in addition to our work of collecting and preserv- 
ing the materials for its history, there is yet another direction, 
as it seems to me, in which our Club may be enabled to do 
yeoman's service in behalf of the truest and best interests of 
our city. Whenever in the future, as in the past, trade's 
dollar-worshipping hosts shall threaten the destruction of its 



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historic temples and fanes of liberty, the effacement of its 
characteristic features, or the invasion of the time-honored 
muster-field which British red-coats failed to hold, then may 
we not hope that our organization would serve as a rallying- 
point and headquarters for a united defence? Be it ours to 
furnish at least a Lanrick-mead, whereon the clansmen may 
assemble, confident that when danger threatens they will 
troop in like Roderick's warriors at the signal of the fiery 
cross." 

The Antiquarian Club continued to hold interesting 
monthly meetings during the year 1880, with a constantly 
increasing membership, which demanded separate and inde- 
pendent quarters, found in Pemberton Square. At the 
annual election of 1881, the retiring president congratulated 
the club upon its roll of 174 members, and declined a re-elec- 
tion, expressing his willingness to act in any other capacity. 
Mr. W. H. Whitmore was accordingly elected President, and 
General Ouincy Secretary and Treasurer. 

In the record of March 8, 1S81, the subject of securing for 
antiquarian purposes and public uses the Old State House is 
first mentioned by a resolution which the Secretary was in- 
structed to communicate to the other historical associations 
of the city, with the view of obtaining concert of action in its 
favor. In June of that year, General Ouincy addressed the 
committee of the city government, which heard a petition to 
remove this building on the expiration of existing leases, be- 
cause it interfered with carrying out a great public improve- 
ment, namely : the extension of Devonshire street from 
Milk street to Dock Square ; and in its place, for instance, to 
erect some monumental shaft or other memorial. 

Speaking by vote of the Club, on behalf of the remonstrants 
to such action. General Ouincy said that "the old familiar cry 
of common sense vs. sentiment is again raised, as though, for- 
sooth, they were the opposite poles of a magnet, and that 
which the one attracts the other must necessarily repel. So 
far from this being the case, is it not notorious that in many 
of the highest and most important decisions of human life, 
the dictates of common sense are seen to be such only because 
they are also the dictates of sentiment ? For instance, when 



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the thunder of Beauregard's cannonade of Sumter first reached 
our ears, to the question of common sense of how best to 
accept the challenge in a manner to arouse enthusiasm for 
the old flag, sentiment replied : * Run it up to the spire of 

the Old South Meeting-house.' This building, 

Mr. Chairman," he continued, "is one of the few little pieces 
which remain to us of the old rebel town, as they used to call 
us in Parliament after they had heard of our little tea-party at 
Griffin's wharf. Against these walls rattled the bullets of the 
Boston Massacre, and within the same walls the defence of 
the same men who fired these bullets was bravely undertaken 
by two of the foremost patriots and sons of liberty, John 
Adams and Josiah Ouincy, Jr. And in this building, accord- 
ing to the former, the child Independence was born. When 
the contemplated World's Fair shall be held in our city, if 
the foreigner then in our streets, on remarking our monu- 
ments and testimonials, shall ask in what manner the virtues 
of our ancestors are commemorated, we shall still, I trust, be 
able to reply. Si niomtmcnta quaeris, cirawispicc, and, without 
crossing Charlestown bridge, show him within a stone's throw 
from each other, the Birthplace of Independence, the Cradle 
of Liberty, and the Temple of Freedom — three old buildings 
whose unpretending walls are more eloquent of the virtues of 
the founders of the republic, of that people's government 
whose success shakes every throne, than could be all the tons 
of granite or marble, which we, their descendants, could ever 
pile together." 

Is it out of place, in commemorating the author of such 
burning words of civic eloquence, to express the hope that at 
no distant day this entire building, saved from trade's destruc- 
tion by the Antiquarian Club of Boston, may be committed 
to the keeping of its successor, and preserved forever as a 
monument of municipal loyalty ! 

The appeal of General Ouincy and his associates for the 
preservation of this building having been successful, we find 
that in November, 1881, a committee, of which our present 
President was chairman, reported in favor of the incorporation 
and enlargement of the Club, with a view to its occupation 
and supervision of the Memorial Halls, and from favorable 



action on that report a committee of ten members, of whom 
General Ouincy was one, associated themselves as a corpora- 
tion under the name of the Bostonian Society, for the purpose 
of " promoting the study of the history of Boston and the 
preservation of its antiquities." On the 27th of December, 
the Boston Antiquarian Club transferred to it all its property 
and disbanded. 

To follow from that time to the present year the intimate 
connection of General Ouincy with this Society would be to 
write its history.'' The resolutions, drawn up by those who 
had been intimately associated with him, speak from a knowl- 
edge which I do not possess of his faithful service as Clerk 
and Treasurer from the organization to the annual meeting of 
1884, and as a member of the Committee on Rooms until his 
death. A resolution adopted on his retirement from the 
former offices attests the value of his services, which it 
declares to "have been largely instrumental in bringing the 
Society to its present state of prosperity and usefulness, and 
entitle him to the warmest gratitude of its officers and mem- 
bers." In all these offices, as in all the positions, civil and 
military, he ever held, he faithfully performed the duties 
belonging to them as far as his strength allowed, and when 
his strength was no longer equal to the tasks, he laid them 
down ; office had no charm for him unconnected with duty, to 
shirk which was as foreign to his nature as flattery, and as 
odious as hypocrisy. 

His work was done. Still, he did not cease to be a con- 
spicuous figure in the gatherings of men to whom his presence 
gave pleasure. So long as he stood upon the earth he was 
always to be counted among those who maintained the right, 
the fitting, the proper, against whatever was mean and un- 
worthy and contemptible. Especially was this true of every- 
thing that concerned the military in its relations to the civil 
power and economy. Nothing stirred his indignation more 
than audacious attempts to steal the uniform of the soldier 
to serve the politician in. Upon a proposition to exempt 
soldiers from the provisions of the civil service rules, he 
spurned what he called an insult to the self-respecting vet- 
erans ; "for our battles and our hardships," he said, "our 



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wounds and our prisons, we have the reward of the conscious- 
ness of patriotic duty done ; for the sake of our past services 
do not force upon the public our present services at a price 
which they may not be worth. I have so much confidence in 
the average intelligence and manliness of that class that I 
should be willing, were it possible, to assemble the survivors 
of all who at any time served under my command, during my 
nearly six years of army service, with the utmost confidence 
that they would, after I had talked with them for ten minutes, 
be ready to join me by an overwhelming majority in an indig- 
nant protest against this legislation, as an insult and a slur 
upon their manhood." What nobler epitaph could the self- 
respecting soldier wish than these manly words ? Of such a 
one did Wordsworth think, when he drew the character of 
the "Happy Warrior," — 

"Who, if he rise to station of command, 
Rises by open means ; and there will stand 
On honorable terms, or else retire, 
And in himself possess his own desire ; 
Who comprehends his trust, and to the same 
Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim ; 
And therefore does not stoop, nor lie in wait 
For wealth or honors, or for worldly state." 

• 

But the poet declares that such a soul is one 

"whose master-bias leans 
To home-felt pleasures and to gentle scenes." 

In such an atmosphere, rather than in one heavy with the 
shock of war and politics, would we contemplate the closing 
years of our associate's life, in those reunions where he loved 
to bind himself to his comrades by a common memory and 
the exercise of congenial tastes, never obtruding himself by 
aught that could smack of arrogance or the pride of birth or 
of high achievement ; reserved, rather, in general conversa- 
tion, until some word kindled his imagination or stirred his 
recollection. Who has not then seen him enter the contro- 
versial milee with visor down, resenting attacks upon what he 



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loved, striking vigorously at shams, stripping with ridicule the 
tatters from impostures, and then withdrawing as quietly as 
he came? Often assuming an air of indifference and style of 
persiflage, and a punctilious courtesy after the manner of the 
Frenchmen at Fontenoy, advancing hat in hand, and request- 
ing the gentlemen of England to fire first, Quincy, when the 
hour came, struck valiant blows that rang upon his opponent's 
shield and then pierced it. 

But those who come here to-day to recall his features 
snatched from oblivion by the artist's hand, and to revive the 
impression his life and character made upon them, will think 
of him as the gentleman and scholar, as the student of history 
and our local antiquities in the Bostonian Society, and of war 
records in the Military Historical Society, as the lover of 
German poetry and music in the Orpheus Musical Society, as 
the patriot soldier of the Loyal Legion, as the philanthropic 
successor of his father as trustee of the Perkins Institution 
for the Blind. Faithful to duty and to friendship in all these 
associations of human interest and activity, he has not found 
a successor — his chair is still empty. 

His literary powers were by no means small, and would 
have sustained greater public exercise than he gave them. 
He was fond of literary exercise, in which he forgot the 
ravages of disease. He loved to turn his knowledge of 
foreign languages to account by translations, and these efforts 
have a positive poetic value. How his blood must have 
stirred with thoughts of his own experience as he translated 
Heine's "Two Grenadiers," even as Sidney's at the reading 
of "• Chevy Chace " : — 



Brother, thou now must grant my latest prayer. 

When death arrives, of all friends still the best, 
My corse to our own country thou wilt bear, 

And in fair France's bosom let me rest. 



The cross of Honor with its crimson band 
Upon m\- heart then sacredly be placed ; 

My trusty musket give into m}- hand, 

And gird my sword-belt firm about my waist. 



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"A sentry in my grave, listening each sound, 
Ready for duty silent will I lie. 
Until his cannon booming shake the ground, 
And neighing squadrons charge in thunder by. 

"When o'er my grave my Emperor shall ride, 
'Mid clashing sabres glistening in light. 
Armed and equipped then spring I to his side, 
For him, my Monarch and my Chief, to fight!" 

No man ever fought more bravely than Ouincy a losing 
battle against disease gnawing for years like the Promethean 
vulture. How little of that battle with its varying phases 
his best friends really knew, as they saw him from day to 
day assuming a cheerfulness he did not feel, smiling on the 
brink of a precipice they did not see ! He had found in these 
weary years of struggle and waiting, of brief hope and longer 
despair, the truth of Carlyle's assertion that "the blessedness 
of life is not in living but in working well," and when the 
power of working well was gone, life itself was no more 
worth the living. Solitary in the society of those who loved 
him, and silent when suffering most, he bore alone the brunt 
of the battle, holding high the flag as in many a former 
contest. 

One who knew him well, eminent as soldier and jurist, sums 
up in touching words the character of our friend and his de- 
termination to fight the battle to the end: "I knew General 
Ouincy well, both during and since the war. No more high- 
minded and honorable man ever lived ; no man was more actu- 
ated always by the great idea of duty. He was thoroughly 
brave, not in the battle-field only but wherever occasion called 
for the higher qualities of moral courage. His wide reading 
and fine literary taste made him delightful and attractive as a 
companion and friend. We were associated for several years 
in the Military Historical Society, of which we were respect- 
ively President and Secretary, and I had occasion to know 
how faithful he was in small things as well as great, when 
they came within the sphere of what he had undertaken to 
do. It is with infinite pain that I have seen this winter that 
his life was passing away, and that in great pain and suffering. 



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We dined alone together about three weeks since, and I in- 
duced him by inquiries to tell me somewhat fully of his 
health. It was a very sad and distressing story, but he ended 
by saying : ' I am bearing no more than other men have borne 
before me. I will try to do so to the end.' He then quoted 
some lines of Longfellow as to 'the red planet Mars,' in which 
the words 'suffer and be strong' occur, and added, 'that at 
least is what I shall endeavor to be.' " 

Longfellow, in " The Light of Stars," had given 

" the first watch of the night 
To the red planet Mars. 

" Tlie star of the unconquered will, 
He rises in my breast, 
Serene and resolute and still, 
And calm and self-possessed. 

" And thou, too, whosoe'er thou art, 
That readest this brief psalm, 
As one by one thy hopes depart. 
Be resolute and calm. 

" O fear not in a world like this, 
And tliou shalt know ere long. 
Know how sublime a thing it is 
To suffer and be strong." 

Who can forget the final scene, when all that was mortal 
of the dead General lay beneath the flag of his country and 
the draped banner of his Order, lulled to sleep, as it were, by 
the German songs he loved so well, and borne to the tomb 
of his ancestors with dirge of trumpet and organ, while strong 
men wept ! If from some loftier sphere his disembodied 
spirit looked down upon so simple yet touching a requiem, 
how was all the anguish of his latter years swept away as a 
cloud when the sun ariseth ! 

" Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er, 

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking ; 

Dream of battled fields no more. 
Days of danger, nights of waking. 



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No rude sound shall reach thine ear, 
Armor's clang, or war-steed champing. 

Trump nor pibroch summon here 

Mustering clan, or squadron tramping." 

Brethren of the Bostonian Society, soldiers of the Loyal 
Legion and of that greater army, whose guns, we hope, are 
forever stacked, the name of Ouincy remains to us something 
more than a recollection — it is already an example. 



LE S "09 




^hc ^ostcmiau J>ocietitj. 

President. 
CURTIS GUILD. 



Directors. 

Thomas C. Amory, Thomas J. Allen, 

William S. Appleton, John T. Hassam, 

Joshua P. Bodfish, Hamilton A. Hill, 

Curtis Guild, Samuel H. Russell, 

William Wilkins Warren. 

Ckrk and Treasiner. 
William Clarence Burrage. 



Committee on Publications. 

Hamilton Andrews Hill, John T. Hassam, 

William Clarence Burrage. 



l^ojSton antiquarian Club* 

Samuel M. Ouincy, Presidoit, 1880. 

William H. Whitmore, President, 1881. 



l30)Stonian ^ocietv* 

Organized to pro»toie the study of the History of Boston, and the preservation of its A ntiquities. 
INCORPORATED DECEMHER 2, t88i. 

Curtis Guild, . . . President. 

PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY: 

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOSTONIAN SOCIETY. 
1883. 1884. 1885. 1886. 1887. 

WILLIAM BLAXTON. 

By Thomas Amory Coffin. 

ABEL BOWEN, ENGRAVER, 

By William H. Whitmore, 1884. 

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